When our clear perceptions reform, they still trace a fold that now separates the conscious and the unconscious, (…)

• Gilles Deleuze, The Fold, Leibniz and the Baroque

Simplicity is “just one fold”. This word comes from the Latin simplex, derived from semel “once” and plecto “to fold”. Everything starts with a fold. Before this division, there is unity. We can see the territory as a vast fold, we can see architecture as structuring and articulating folds, we can see the body and the soul as a fold on the sea of consciousness. The fold is at the origin of the morphogenesis of the creatures and plants of the “garden”. This garden is the garden of the “simple” plants, the plants that heal. The whole earth is our garden, and simplicity is essential. The simplicity loved by the Cistercians as well as the happy and necessary simplicity to which a growing number of our contemporaries aspire today.

Bounoure & Genevaux use the fold as a unique plastic language: for them the fold is like “a pen for writing in space”. Following in the tradition of the minimalist artists of the 1960s and 1970s, they use cut and folded forms to create a floating sense of spatiality. They have entitled this form of plastic expression “Shaped pattern”. Their three-dimensional work tends to abolish the boundaries between painting and sculpture, image and object. The folds formed in the sheet metal are revealed by the light. Their mirrors, folded, are less objects than devices re-creating images, decomposing the real. By the new framing that the work proposes, the spectator is invited to pay attention to the present.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2021 – ST-ART European art fair of Strasbourg – invitation of the director Patricia Houg
2021 – Simples, Le réservoir, Sètes
2020 – Sensitive surfaces, carte blanche at Atelier Jespers, Curator Jean-François Declerc, Brussels Belgium
2020 – Simplicity, Decorde Gallery, Strasbourg
2019 – Bounoure & Genevaux, Decorde Gallery, ST-ART, Strasbourg
2018 – Bounoure & Genevaux , Clement Cividino Gallery, Perpignan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 – Pop up – Fernet Branca Fondation. Saint Louis
2021 – Design of the XXE and XXI centuries, Cornette de Saint Cyr, Brussels
2020 – Conversations, Galerie du coté, Biarritz
2019 – #itinerance17- Art & Design Elysée, Curator Jean François Declerc, Paris
2019 – K-Libre, Le Reservoir, Sète
2019 – #itinerance13, Muséee d’Art et d’Histoire, Art Brussels off, Curator Jean François Declerc, Brussels
2019 – #itinerance12, Pierre Bonnefille – Paris
2019 – Portraits-Autoportraits, Jaipat & Frac Occitanie, Temple des Bordes
2018 – Folds and folding, Galerie Clémence Boisanté, Montpellier
2018 – The Other Self, Decorde Gallery, Strasbourg
2010 – Carton plein, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris
2009 – Archiwaste exhibition, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture

AWARDS – RESIDENCIES

2022 – Art-industry residency at Buesa corp with the support of Mécènes du Sud and the DRAC Occitanie
2022 – Residency at the Villa Galaxie, with the support of the Official, Esterel Biennial Project, Liège and fold
2019 – Art Prize of the city of Strasbourg, ST-ART, November