GILLES BOUDOT
SOME PHOTOGRAPHIC RITUALS

Artist-photographer-explorer-borrower-recoverer-builder-illusionist, Gilles Boudot is all of these things. Working for several years, his black and white photographic series are full of references to art history.

Ingenuous or disturbing, his creations resemble a cabinet of curiosities: a bric-a-brac of carefully selected recovered objects, then assembled, placed in a narrative context, and photographed with precision using the author’s own devices.
All of his series form a singular and coherent body of work.

Dominique Gellé 2024 in 9 Lives Magazine

opening on Friday September 26th 6 to 9PM
with an artist’s performance

Exhibition September 26th to 28th
2 to 8PM
then on appointment until November 3rd

In addition to being an artist, Gilles Boudot restores vintage motorcycles. Not sputtering mopeds, but classics of yesteryear, antique English motorcycles that leak oil and drive on the left side of the road. A cross between the work of a polyglot historian, a meticulous engineer, and a surrealist tinkerer. With grease under his fingernails and his head in the clouds, such is Gilles Boudot.

His photography is like him: rigorous and mischievous, transcendent and funny, radical and unhinged. A unique and under-disclosed body of work.

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There is a double paradox in Gilles Boudot’s work: between the dark, frightening rendering and the disconcerting and mischievous side.

Also between the rigor of his conceptual analysis of the notion of representation and the method of creating images, on the order of cheap tinkering.

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At the Frozen Lake Gallery, Gilles Boudot shows two series: the “viewing glasses” and the “domestic oratories.”

Richard Petit | curator

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