Bio
Paul Garcin was graduated (Bachelor/MFA) from the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Art School in 2019.
In a multidisciplinary practice mixing performance, video, sound and installation, he creates storytellings, blending autobiography and autofiction, appropriating the modus operandis of American mainstream pop culture in order to deconstruct the archetypes and values it conveys. He is one of the founding members of the collective KimPetrasPaintings .
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He presented his work at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris (2019); La Graineterie, art center of the city of Houilles (2020); Glassbox (2021); TU-Nantes (2017 / 2019); ENSA Bourges (2017) ...
Performances / Shows (Author + Performer)
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2022 The Power of Love, Fascination and Céline Dion, Freed From Desire #3, Bletterans (FR)
2021 An American Teenage Dream, closing of the exhibition Go Far, Go Hard, Glassbox, Paris (FR)
Hillside Boys with KimPetrasPaintings, Maison des Arts de Malakoff (FR)
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2019 Dancing On My Own #3 (PREMIUM QUALITY) , Opening of Felicità 19, Beaux-Arts de Paris (FR)
The Encounter Pt. II , Neutral Ground Theater, Nantes (FR)
The Encounter Pt.II , festival "Splash! Visual Arts / Living Arts", TU-Nantes, Nantes (FR)
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2018 Dancing On My Own #2 (NAP QUEEN) , Pride'n'Art Festival Opening Night, POL'n, Nantes (FR)
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2017 Clipology , "BAM!" Festival, with Poils Et Les Gants, TU-Nantes, Nantes (FR)
​ Saumon Lamour presents!, with Poils Et Les Gants, "Turbulence" Festival, TU-Nantes, Nantes (FR)
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2016 Dancing On My Own #1 (GOOD NIGHT) , "All Tomorrow's Parties", Félix Thomas, ESBA Nantes Métropole (FR)
​ Conference about planes, Festival "I Do What I Do #5", ENSA Bourges (FR)
Conference about planes, Evening "Performances In Act #1", Dulcie Galerie (FR)
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Collective Exhibitions
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2021 Go Far, Go Hard , with KimPetrasPaintings, Glassbox, Paris.
Restitution of Mobilisé.es residency, with KimPetrasPaintings, Maison des Arts de Malakoff.
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2020 13th Biennial of Young Creation , La Graineterie, Houilles
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2019 Felicità 19 , Beaux-Arts de Paris
Go West , Nantes School of Fine Arts
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2018 Liquid Sunshine , Open School Gallery, Nantes Fine Arts
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2014 OFF SITU IV , Chapel of the Upper Quarter, Sète
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Residencies
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2022 Freed From Desire #3, Bletterans (FR)
2021 L'Estive , Glassbox (with KimPetrasPaintings), Paris (FR)
Mobilisé.es , Maison des Arts (with KimPetrasPaintings), Malakoff (FR)
2018 Fieldwork: Marfa , Texas (USA)
2017 BAM! , TU-Nantes (with Poils Et Les Gants), Nantes (FR)
2014 OFF SITU , Chapelle du Quartier Haut, Sète (FR)
Publications
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2021 FIELDWORK MARFA, TEXAS USA, 2011-20 , Jannink Edition
2020 Catalog of the exhibition of the Biennale of Young Creation of Houilles , text by Florian Gaité
2019 Catalog of the Felicità 19 exhibition, interview with Anaïd Demir, Beaux-Arts de Paris Édition
Studies
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2019 DNSEP (Highest honours), Nantes School of Fine Arts
2017 DNAP (Highest honours), Nantes School of Fine Arts
2013 Preparatory Class of Fine Arts of Sète
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