— Currently
Bližnjost, Ravnikar, Ljubljana, duo exhibition with Neja Zorzut, curated by Olesia Shuvarikova
— Bio
Aurélien Potier lives and works in Marseille. His work has been presented at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), MO.CO. (Montpellier), Triangle – Astérides (Marseille), CAPC (Bordeaux), CCA (Glasgow), la Casa Encendida (Madrid), Gianni Manhattan (Vienna), Nicoletti (London), Sissi Club (Marseille), Ravnikar (Ljubljana), Air de Paris (Romainville), Cooper Union (New York), Art Basel Paris, Frieze London. He was an artist in residency at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Triangle – Astérides (Marseille), Center for Contemporary Arts & GSS (Glasgow), the CAC Synagogue de Delme and Homesession (Barcelona).
His work is represented by Gianni Manhattan, Vienna.
Aurélien Potier creates emotionally charged environments, in which materials — metal cables, wax, steel, wood, mortar, language — become carriers of physical and affective tension. From these, a language emerges from matter itself, implicit or explicit, oscillating between erosion and resurgence.
His works — sculpture, installation, drawing, print, sound composition — unfold in direct response to the site, revealing a visceral sensitivity to space. They do not simply settle within it: they integrate, running across floors, climbing walls, pressing thresholds. Within these environments, the works operate as breaches, where instability and impermanence become both method and condition.
In Potier’s work, the confrontation of two opposing movements — dismantling and emerging — traces the contours of a paradoxical, generative space. The works thus expose their intrinsic contradictions as a driving force. In this sense, his practice insists, persists, and gives form to a way of inhabiting zones of fracture, where the sustained friction of opposing forces generates an opening at the very core of desire.
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— Contact
aurelien.potier@yahoo.fr
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