François Daireaux
François Daireaux,Professor, Department of Visuals Arts, National School of Architecture, Versailles, France.
2009 Gallery Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
2011 Los sueños de Daireaux, MACRO, Rosario, Argentina
Hacia el Am(o)ur, French alliance of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tribute to Chellappan, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France.
2011 Los sueños de Daireaux, color video film, 55 min
2012 Bow Firozabad Bangles, Art center L’Imagerie, Lannion, France.
2013 Cinéma du Réel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Meisenthal le feu sacré, Gallery Poirel, Nancy, France
From Rembrandt to The Beatles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium.
2013 Blow bangles production, La Maréchalerie - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Versailles, France.
2013 Aires, video film, 54 min
Firozabad, color video film, 64 min
Suite, color video film, 114min
François Daireaux defines himself as a peregrinator artist. Though the idea of peregrination can corrupt the understanding of a profoundly original approach (in the full meaning of the term), everything begins with the the idea of displacement, visit, exploration, discovery though walking and feet.
Movement, not in its modern vacuity, but as an encounter with different cultures is pursued in order to grasp human activity in its traditional implications, most often neglected or treated as folklore. Consequently, artist attempts to develop a coherent project born at the heart of the studio so to better embrace the world.
Through the material, the practice of shape and meaning evolves. Experience and tacit knowledge is in the repetition, recycling, interaction, renewal is expressed through the diversity of the materials and their sensitive and tactile capacities. Materials are transformed to even metamorphose. Does the voyage have similarities to “an aesthetics of diversity” as proposed by Victor Segalen? Yet, what is available here is the continuous refusal for all mercantile exoticism, the inevitable consequence of a colonist perspective. “This, which is universal, is simply my own vision, an artist’s : see the world, then put forth one’s vision of the world” (again Victor Segalen).
Seeing it, understanding it, grasping it through work as a vital, organic process. And if “each age and society re-creates its ‘Others’” (Edward W. Said), François Daireaux clearly thinks about the other and the elsewhere indivisibly. Humanity only exists in the accomplished work.
Through and for the gesture, he uncovers the universal by observing, molding, and segmenting the tirelessly repeated ritual of production. For François Daireaux, Indian, Chinese, Moroccan craftsmen participate in a relationship to time, there where nostalgia diminishes.
The work reveals the tellings of the multiplicity of modes of intervention, styles, lives, both associated and constituent to human essence. “Plurality is the condition of human action, because we are all the same, that is, human, in such a way that nobody is ever the same as anyone else who ever lived, lives, or will live.” (Hannah Arendt).