CARRYING THE WORLD TO THE WORLD'S EDGE -
2018

Photo-performances (Artist book and photo series), 2007/2022 .

Since 2014, with collaboration of Lorraine Beaulieu.

Set of photo-performances in which an inflatable geopolitical globe is sculpted with one’s breath, in various outdoor, urban or natural contexts. The act is banal, but the context gives it an eco-social value, Since 2014, by posing as a duo or alone, in front of various historical and cultural sites, sometimes of political value of power, or simply in natural sites evoking climatic extremes, we are interested in the discrepancies between this plasticized image of the world and its earthly and human reality. The hugging gesture is intended to be soft, unifying, and protective, but also speaks of giving an artificial respiration to this conventional image of the world.

Artist book in a wooden box: 24 prints ink-jet on acid-free Verona  paper (edition 2/2)
71 x 26,5 cm chacune / Boitier en bois : 75 x 31 x 2,5 cm

HOLOGRAPHIC SUITCASE, a photo series and a video piece
2017 (Venice) 

Venice, July 3-9, 2017

Photo-performance with a clear plexiglass suitcase, a painter’s plexiglass palette and two diffraction holographic films (HOE). A piece produced apart from the the collective project «Transparent Travel 2017» in Venice (Curated by The Two Gullivers, Montreal). Video art and photo prints on paper have been edited from that action.

Conception: Philippe Boissonnet. Photo credit: Philippe Boissonnet and Lorraine Beaulieu

TRANSPARENT TRAVEL 2016
A collective performance project (curators : The Two Gullivers)

2016

Manhattan, October 22nd

Photo-performances produced as a group, in collaboration with L. Beaulieu, A. Zayed, B. Haxhillari, F. Preka, P. Boissonnet. Travelling with clear plexiglass suitcases in the streets of Manhattan. An infiltration project into the Withney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the Guggenheim Museum.

Videos, photos, and objects were exhibited at Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY at Oldwestbury, NY (oct-nov. 2016).

Curators: The Two Gullivers, with the support of URAV Group and UQTR. Photo credits: ©URAV Group

« Global Warming », 2016. An installation presented in duo with Lorraine Beaulieu at Amelie A Wallace Gallery, SUNY at Oldwestbury, NY

NOMADIC WORLD, a photo series
2015 (Venice)

Photo-performance series with an inflatable geopolitical globe and a transparent carry-on suitcase. Performed on july 1rst at entrance of the Venice Biennale « All The World’s Futures» [apart from the collective project “Transparent Travel 2015” curated by The Two Gullivers, Montreal].

Photo credit: Lorraine Beaulieu

#WEARETHEWORLD (Venice 2015)
2015 

An artist-book (édition 4/4) and a video piece (2’20’’)

Artist’s folding book of a photo-performance (july 2-3). A project of «infiltration» within the 56th Venice Biennale Giardinis with a clear Plexiglass suitcase and an inflatable earth globe. An individual project apart from the collective project “Transparent Travel 2015”, curated by The Two Gullivers, Montreal.

A limited edition, printed on folded ink-jet paper, inserted into a clear plexiglass box (edited 4/4 - Dimensions: 22,5 x 36 x 4,5 cm )

Dimensions when unfolded: 125 x 79,5 cm

Photo credit: Lorraine Beaulieu. Conception and montage: Philippe Boissonnet

THE VIDEO : #WEARETHEWORLD (Venice), july 3rd, 2015

A 2:20 minute video-performance produced by Philippe Boissonnet, in front of the pavillions of the United States and Russia (as infiltation in the 56th Venice Biennale Giardini). Performed with the collaboration of Lorraine Beaulieu and the public.

Photo & video credit: The Two Gullivers. Conception and montage: Philippe Boissonnet

ARTIST-in-RESIDENCE, ANTARCTICA
2007 (photographic archives and performances)

Series of photographies from a Artist-in-resident stay at the Marambio research base, on Antarctica Peninsula. Through the support of Direccion del Antarctico (Argentina) and University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières. A project curated by Andrea Juan (Buenos Aires). Photo documents: Lorraine Beaulieu.

Hervé Fischer wrote about: «Philippe Boissonnet became aware, at Ushuaia and Antarctica (2007), of an urgency to put the world as it should be, starting with the South, as did Nicolas Uriburu, to rid himself of a bias he inevitably carries with him : that of a Northern view. (…) This act has proven to be of some political value. And he floods the imagination with metaphors. Thus, he sees the Earth as a living organism, and acts by merging its image with bodies, tattooed skins for instance, and by identifying it through myths : Gaïa or Atlas, even Galileo. Humans have always been a measure of everything, according to greek proverbs. Today, within the art of Philippe Boissonnet, the North is in the South. »

Hervé Fischer, 2008 (Arte&Arte Gallery brochure, Buenos Aires)

TRACE-PARENCES
1981 (photo series) / 2018 (the artist book)

Artist folding book from a photo-performance created in Angers, France (with white paint and black paint. Inkjet prints on Archive paper (based on Kodak slides). Edited 2/2