Thomas Garnier

Born in 1991, Thomas Garnier is a french contemporary and visual artist intitialy trained as an architect from the Superior national school of architecture of Paris val de Seine. He then graduated from the Fresnoy National studio for Contemporary Arts where he was awarded ‘‘Digital arts revelations’’ by the ADAGP, society of french artists for his graduating installation Cenotaph.

His work has since been shown at international exhibitions, fairs, festivals and biennials such as the Nuit Blanche (Brussels, Belgium), the WRO media art biennial (Wroslaw, Poland), Nemo biennial & Chroniques biennal (Paris & Marseilles, France), Ignite festival and museum (Miami, USA), Noise media art fair (Istanbul,Turkey) and in foundations such as the Fosun Foundation (Shanghai, China) and the Fiminco Foundation (Paris, France).

His practice is that of an artist but also of a researcher or a heterotopologist, as defined by Foucault in his text ’’les espaces autres’’ (the other spaces). This search and construct of meaning in the liminal and in states of in between brings him to produce automated and collapsing concrete model landscapes, infinitly looping images of ruins photocollages, displays that randomly compose linguistical accumulations and robotic shadow projections from wireframe 3d printed sculptures.

He thus seeks singular and distant places which question the conscious and unconscious manufacture of space. The critical nature of the works develop through wandering, and the observation of real spaces. In Thomas Garnier’s work we seem to witness the archaeology of a drifting and derived world, caught between and obsessed by the congregation of multiple timeframes and techniques, derived from nonexisting primal-fu-turism, retro-additivism, multi-brutalism, supra-romantism or any word accumulation that you could dream of by yourself.