Alexandre MAUBERT

Born in 1981.

2009-2011

Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains Jury honors 

- National studio of contemporary arts - Tourcoing, France

2006-2009

Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie Jury honors 

- National school of photography - Arles, France

2001-2005

Master of Visuals Arts & Cinema, 

Louis Lumière University, Lyon, France

Exhibitions

2013

- Show Off Art Fair, curated by Dominique Moulon, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France Museum Macro Testaccio, Liquid Landscapes, curated by Fondazione Romaeuropa Roma, Italia

- Festival de la Luz, Casa de Francia, solo show, Monade, curated by Patrick Clanet, Mexico City, Mexico

- Centre Culturel Français de Mexico IFAL, solo show, 3 Cuerpos, commissaire - Patricia Martin, Mexico City, Mexico

- Nuit Blanche de Kyoto #3, solo show, Ukiyo-e, curated by Isabelle Olivier, Institut Franco-Japonais

- du Kansai, Kyoto, Japan Gallery See Studio, The End, curated by d-e-r-i-v-a, Paris, France

2012

- Villa Kujoyama, residency and production grants, Institut Français, Kyoto, Japan 

- Prix Pierre Schaeffer, SCAM, Paris, France


Awards and grants

Alexandre Maubert is a French filmmaker and visual artist. After graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie of Arles, he went on to study at Le Fresnoy between 2009 and 2011. His works are now presented in many institutions, galleries and festivals worldwide: Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012, Arte Laguna, Venetian Arsenal, Nuit Blanche Kyoto, Kassel Film Festival, Über Lebenskunst, Berlin; New York Photo Festival, Tish Gallery, New York; Foam Museum, Maison Descartes, Amsterdam; El Ojo Ajeno Gallery in Lima. In 2012, he was awarded the Villa Kujoyama arts residency in the 'New Images' section. In Kyoto, Japan, the residency is run by the Institut Français. During it, he will develop his next project Ukiyo-e, Histoires du monde flottant (Ukiyo-e, Stories of the Floating World), a series of films reflecting upon the pirating of cultural contents on the Internet seen through the prism of Japanese animation. In 2013, the Lab Labanque in Béthune and the Institut Français in Mexico will both host monograph exhibitions of Maubert's work. 

Alexandre Maubert's work plays with a process of permanent deterritorialisation. From film to installation, photography to new media, his images constantly oscillate between diverse boundaries (geographic and aesthetic), as though to better invalidate or affirm them. The important element of these forms is that they function like so many contortions allowing the artist to approach a complex and diffuse subject, which is that of our utopias, their limits, and the manner in which these utopias resist reality. But the utopias that he questions are troubling in that they often flirt with the limits of imprisonment, and sometimes even those of legality. From Nordelta, a gated community near Buenos Aires, to the ubiquitous city of New Songdo, located in South Korea, his works never stop tracing the moving outlines of a collective dream and its reverse. 

Gregory Buchert