Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty

The practice of art is far from being as solitary as we sometimes imagine. While the studio is a privileged space for reflection and production, it is also a place of passage, of emulation, that lives to the rhythm of the encounters and exchanges that take place there. Although creation is mostly individual, it owes a great deal to these collective manifestations which, throughout an artistic career, maintain the work in its liveliest form, porous to the multiplicities it encounters. This carte blanche for David Douard, best known for his sculptures and installations that call on altered forms of language, reflects the way in which an artist evolves alongside his peers - between reciprocal influence and fascination with the vocabulary of the other. Invited for the first time as a curator, David Douard has produced a group exhibition for the Fondation Pernod Ricard, conceived as a total environment that, through a variety of media and aesthetics, provides information on the way in which a sensibility is continually constructed.