Invited artist
Born
1990, France
Youri Johnson
Works and lives
Herblay-sur-Seine, France
Youri Johnson is a fiction producer of fictions. His life is made up of poems, theoretical texts, strange objects and more obscure things. It all adds up to a body of work entitled “L’art secret de la guerre secrète”, fragments of which have been read, published and shown in several exhibitions in France and abroad: Cold Prey, New York, 2019 (cur. Underground Flower & Lubov NYC); Diamants Rouillés, Le point Commun, Annecy, 2021, (cur. Marianne Derrien); A few tricks up the sleeve & a dagger in the heart, ep.1, Paris, Doc, 2021 (cur. Lou Ferrand & Katia Porro) ; Witzgarden, Noisy-le-Sec, Iveco Nu (cur. Data Rhei) ; Initiation Party, Miami, Hotel Ocean, 2021 (cur. Anna Frost) ; A single Violet Transplant, Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 2022 (cur. Emma Passera & Anousha Mohtashami) ; Brûlure Profonde, Paris, 2022 (cur. Ygrève) ; A few tricks up… ep.2, Paris, Treize, 2022 (cur. Lou Ferrand & Katia Porro) ; C’était mieux avant, Paris, Palais de Tokyo, 2022 (cur. François Piron & Yoann Gourmel) ; The Floor is lava, Noisy-le-Sec, L’aconservatoire (cur. Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos & Hugo Laporte) ; Eolith, Montréal, 2022 (cur. Nick Castonguay & Daniel Fernandes), Silver Screen, Los Angeles, 2022, Harkawik gallery, (cur. by Bella Moore) ; La Descente, Poitiers, 2022, Confort Moderne (cur. by Draft001) ; Vestiges, Paris, 3537, (cur. Louise des Places & Quentin Fromont), Le Grand désenvoûtement, Paris, Palais de Tokyo (cur. Guillaume Desanges & Adélaïde Blanc); Histoires vraies, Vitry-sur- Seine, Macval (cur. Frank Lamy); Armour of Contempt, London, Gossamer Fog, 2023; Armure de Foi, Paris, After hours; L’amitié, ce tremble, Credac/Crac Alsace, 2024. The online magazine Figure Figure devoted its August 2020 issue to him, in the form of a lengthy interview conducted by Lou Ferrand. In April 2021, a small book entitled Mycelium was published (le murmure éditeur), and other texts are in preparation.
“Chambre d’échos”, Chapter I
27.11 — 21.12.2024
Le salon