Born in 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine, FR
Lives and works in Paris, FR
The unilateral exercise of power and the notion of perspective are recurrent preoccupations in the work of Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil. An essential part of his work concerns the technologies of communication and representation, engaging in critical reflection on their uses, as well as the systems of social control and security of the public domain in a nomadic society, where it is now customary to be recorded when consuming, treating oneself, travelling or communicating.
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil is an artist on the lookout. Since the mid-90s, he has been working to unveil the invisible structures that inform our relationship to a reality that is always already mediatized. He is relentless in his pursuit of the political dimension of image-making. Visibility/invisibility, luminosity/darkness, memory/forgetfulness, what we know/what we think we know, evoking without showing, saying without narrating... these are the beacons by which to apprehend these works, which give shape to the codes that organize the flow of images.
Neither archival documents nor photography in the strict sense of the term, nor even pure scientific modelling, his works possess the ambiguous charm of that which escapes definition, surpassing, with each attempt to qualify their status, the too-narrow framework in which we would like to inscribe them.