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F R A N C O I S
N O U G U I E S
Born in 1969 in Montpellier.
He lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Artist and film-maker, his videos are linked to performances and more exactly to the realization of social experiences. His plastic researchs are articulated around new interpretations of known pictures or movies: it aims at questioning the spectator about his own investment in the creation.
The performance "Dancing Killing", in the center of his demarch, stages the participants of a dance competition wich the winners gain the principal roles of a movie. Ironic situation, because the participants are already actors in the movie of the current performance. In "Last Movie II" a reference to the eponym movie of Dennis Hopper (1971), François Nouguiès realizes a poster and false shooting instruments in wood. Objects are lying, useless in their first function, they are nevertheless the accessories of a movie, a stage, a story. The ideas of artifice and remake are recurrent in François Nouguiès's works, he plays to replace the spectator in the center of the reflection and of the action …