Being an artist is not a state, it is a decision of each moment.

I choose to be an artist by the actions I take in the present. But I could have been an artist and not be one anymore, or not have been one and become one. It’s just a matter of the act.

Here lived filmmaker Boris Lehman

A film by Benoît Labourdette (8’50s, 2013).

The visit of an empty Paris apartment, where several people lived successively. Memory fumes artists Sophie Calle and Boris Lehman.

Everyone is an artist, really.

Only, some assume it more than others and choose to use their creation in the exchange with others. This is the only difference, there is no hierarchy, there is a social choice, to assume or not.

Whiteboards

Series of 20 photographs of paintings.

Are these twenty framed paintings in the tunnel of a train station under renovation “real paintings”? Or are they just the frames that make me see them as paintings worthy of my interest? Is there an artist’s intention or is it just my gaze, (...)

Flowers from the grave, video/organic installation, Garden Festival of Chaumont sur ​​Loire

Video-vegetal installation.Into the International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur Loire, the landscape architect Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville has created a vegetable sculpture, in a basement, as a large liana levitating in the dark. I worked (...)

I’m starting to feel legitimate as an artist myself.

Movie announcement of “Lil’art” 2019

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’30s, 2019).

Lil’art is the annual event for the development and the meeting of the artists of the city of Lilas. Film announcement of the 2019 edition.In 2019, I led the making of a collective video creation by a group of artists, which was presented in (...)

The risk.

For me, the film « Here lived the filmmaker Boris Lehman » was a big risk (as well as the two small films with L.). And I do, really. But, as time goes on for me, I realize that these are just good films. The artist has to take a chance so that (...)

Autumn Festival in Normandy Hybridations # 2 - New creative ways (web conference)

Roundtable / lectures on the issues of creation in the digital age.Rouen, 2 December 2014. I participated in the roundtable / lectures as an artist and cultural player. It is obvious, digital upset the issues of artistic creation, whether (...)

Work in places that are important to you.

In the film “A wild honest man”, by Maria Pinto, Jean-Jacques Pauvert says at one point that Sade knew, at one point in his life, that what he was doing was very important. I know that what I do is important, well, I know that it is something, (...)

La Veranda - Personal exhibition “The kiss 1234567”

Personal exhibition of recent video works.La Veranda, an exhibition place for young digital creation in the Centre region of France (a structure of the association Plan libre créations) proposes a solo exhibition of my recent video work, 18 (...)

Video platform “Connection” for MPAA

Design, construction and animation of a collaborative video platform.

To animate the living story of a cultural project of territory, in the present and for the future, via a dedicated collaborative video platform: https://connexion.mpaa.fr/.The Maison des Pratiques Artistiques Amateur (MPAA) in Paris proposes (...)

Repressed artists

A collective movie (3’05s, 2021).

They all have strong desires, but they feel alone and abandoned.

Symposium : Attention, machine! Artistic Practices and Media Recycling

Communication by Benoît Labourdette to listen (25 minutes) on the stage use of live contributions from unknown users. As part of the symposium “Attention, machine!”. February 7,2018. This symposium organised by the Litt&Arts UMR of the (...)