Jérémie Danon

Film

With no good guys or bad guys, no victories or defeats, Enthéorie is a tale that is not anchored in any space-time reality, except for a stronger, ever-present reality: that of determinism.

This is the story of several characters who try to fulfil their roles and follow the paths that have been laid out for them. This narrative takes the traditional form of a tale and follows the adventures of a hero who, accompanied by his sidekick, a squire with a horse's head, travels through hostile lands to reach the princess he believes he must rescue. This initiatory quest for love and meaning will bring him face to face with his only enemy: himself.

This project uses the register of make-believe to tackle the question of determinism, free will and the roles we are assigned by our gender, social class, sexual orientation or skin colour.

Jérémie Danon

The individual, his identity and the place given to him by society are at the heart of Jérémie Danon’s work. Using photography, video and painting, the artist records time spent and moments shared with singular individuals. Together they ask the question of how to tell their story to the world.

At the crossroads of reality and fiction, Danon’s approach to auteur documentary is a grounded yet highly artistic form of video. By amassing his observations and questions, his projects enable him to present very directly the words and stories he mediates. The resulting forms are not simply documentation, but the transposition, even the sublimation, of a shared experience.

Jérémie Danon studied at the École des beaux-arts in Paris and at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing. His work has been shown at the FRAC Île-de-France (Romainville), the Centre culturel Jean Cocteau (Les Lilas), the Fondation Ricard (Paris), Centquatre – Paris and the BBB Centre d’art (Toulouse). His work can be found in the collections of the musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Fondazione In Between Art Film (Italy), as well as in various personal collections, including that of agnès b.

His projects have been supported by a number of prestigious institutions and awards. For L’Utopie topique in 2024, he received support for innovation in creative documentaries from the CNC, the Fonds Régional pour les Talents Émergents (FoRTE) and a grant from the Fondation des artistes in 2022. In 2023, he won the agnès b Prize, and more recently he received support for a short film in Seine-Saint-Denis from Cinéma 93 for Ride. He has also won awards at film festivals, including the Grand Prix du jury at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival for the best French short film in 2021.

This year, he is presenting his film Ride, co-directed with Kiddy Smile, at the Lyon Biennale. He works closely with the Galerie Éric Mouchet, with whom he has just presented his film Naomi at Loop Art Fair Barcelona, and is preparing his next solo exhibition with them.

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