Xolo Cuintle is an artist duo formed in 2020 by Romy Texier (1995, San Francisco) and Valentin Vie Binet (1996, Paris) who live in Paris and work in Aubervilliers. After graduating from Duperré School, the duo did a year-long residency at the Manufacture des Gobelins (2019 - 2020, Paris) as part of a studies programme with Mobilier national. The duo produce artworks that challenge boundaries between sculpture, furniture and décor. With their four hands, the duo create concrete sculptures and transform this solid and inert material into a fertile soil from which flourishes organic inspired ornamentation. Xolo Cuintle’s creations, meticulously assembled and arranged to inhabit each space, play on the objects that make up the topography of our daily life. The duo construct heterotopic spaces, on the threshold between dream and simulacrum. Within these deserted and petrified scenes, a new grammar of form that takes shape which, in layers, form an interpretation of time.
Xolo Cuintle have taken part in numerous group exhibitions in France and abroad. In 2021, the duo was invited by curator Joël Riff to exhibit with the painter Peter Marcasiano at Double Séjour (Clichy), and presented “Weeping Sun”, their first solo show at Sainte Anne Gallery (Paris). In 2023, Xolo Cuintle had a second solo show, “Current Upcoming Past”, at the Galerie Chloé Salgado (Paris). In the same year, they inaugurated the salon section of the DS Galerie (Paris) with a series of bas-reliefs entitled “1 and 1 is 3” and had their first solo exhibition at a fair with the gallery at Art-O-Rama (Marseille). As part of group shows, the duo has exhibited at several international fairs, including Alcova (Milan), Art Genève (Geneva), Artissima (Turin) and Unique (Paris and Savannah). Xolo Cuintle’s work joined the KADIST collections in 2020 and the CNAP’s in 2023. In 2024, the Xolo Cuintle duo will take part in the group exhibition “Revenir sur le présent” at the Collection Lambert (Avignon) and will take possession of “La Borne” with the POCTB.