Olivier Jonvaux
Be Maybe May - Film - 11min - 2021
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 23
Film
In a parallel universe where Mies Van der Rohe’s pavilion is transformed into a service station in the middle of the desert, a white cat lives a peaceful life. Its daily existence is built around habits and it is perfectly at ease with that. A disturbing companion, like a maleficent double, warns it of an imminent threat and the reality seems very different. Bunches of grapes placed on a bench evaporate as if by magic, ushering in the threatening arrival of a giant fugu fish. Marble becomes steel, glass becomes fabric, brick becomes wood. About these unexplained phenomena, the cat chats freely in its scatty, casual way. It is determined to stand at the frontier between reality and fiction. A tragi-comic quest for identity, at the intersection of the surrealist worlds of Lewis Carroll, the light of Edward Hopper and the memes of the post-digital age.
Olivier Jonvaux
Olivier Jonvaux is an alumnus of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. He has been invited on various residencies and to a number of artistic institutions in France and abroad. His work has been shown at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Saint-Étienne, at Basis Frankfurt, at the Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines (CEAAC) in Strasbourg, and on the Bazaar Compatible Program in Shanghai. In 2019 he exhibited in the Salon Jeune Création and won the Ateliers d’Art prize awarded by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux. His work spans a number of mediums from sculpture to multimedia, while referring to fields as varied as philosophy and comics.
