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Sébastien faces the arbitrariness of our visual culture with professional phlegm and a bit of anxiety. Some images deserve to be treated differently, he feels, because they retain a delicate significance, beyond his own emotional and aesthetic take. From the collection of photographs and video he gathered, some are simply poached and some made by him — these are usually contemplative registrations or straight snapshots. He tries to preserve these images from assimilation into anonymous content, away from any moralistic idea of redemption. For instance, by giving their constitutive absence a specific presence, endangering their immateriality with a physicality.  
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Sébastien faces the arbitrariness of our visual culture with professional phlegm and a bit of anxiety. Some images deserve to be treated differently, he feels, because they retain a delicate significance, beyond his own emotional and aesthetic take. From the photographs and video he gathers, some are simply poached and some made by him — these are usually contemplative registrations or straight snapshots. He tries to give their constitutive absence a specific presence, to endanger their immateriality with a physicality. So that, for instance, these images resist their assimilation into anonymous content.
Physicality is also favored to come to terms with Authority — this aspiration is another salient aspect of his production, felt necessary to situate his artistic practice. Sébastien investigates the forms Authority silently adopts, in its political, scientific and artistic instances and the means of legitimation they deploy. He questions the relationships between these instances, studies their collisions, their discursive cannibalism. These forms and means are then appropriated in performances, site-specific operations and drawings, that oscillate between naive resistances against the powers that be, ironic bravados, critical plays on legitimacy and sheer ''détournements''.
Physicality is also favored to come to terms with Authority — this aspiration is another salient aspect of his production, felt necessary to situate his artistic practice. Sébastien investigates the forms Authority silently adopts, in its political, scientific and artistic instances and the means of legitimation they deploy. He questions the relationships between these instances, studies their collisions, their discursive cannibalism. These forms and means are then appropriated in performances, site-specific operations and drawings, that oscillate between naive resistances against the powers that be, ironic bravados, critical plays on legitimacy and sheer ''détournements''.

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Sébastien Goy (France, 1975) is a BFA candidate at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He previously received a Master's degree in telecommunications and a Master of Advanced Studies in artificial intelligence and pattern recognition.

Sébastien faces the arbitrariness of our visual culture with professional phlegm and a bit of anxiety. Some images deserve to be treated differently, he feels, because they retain a delicate significance, beyond his own emotional and aesthetic take. From the photographs and video he gathers, some are simply poached and some made by him — these are usually contemplative registrations or straight snapshots. He tries to give their constitutive absence a specific presence, to endanger their immateriality with a physicality. So that, for instance, these images resist their assimilation into anonymous content.

Physicality is also favored to come to terms with Authority — this aspiration is another salient aspect of his production, felt necessary to situate his artistic practice. Sébastien investigates the forms Authority silently adopts, in its political, scientific and artistic instances and the means of legitimation they deploy. He questions the relationships between these instances, studies their collisions, their discursive cannibalism. These forms and means are then appropriated in performances, site-specific operations and drawings, that oscillate between naive resistances against the powers that be, ironic bravados, critical plays on legitimacy and sheer détournements.

At the end of the day, if he does not forget, he takes his professional anxiety off and folds it carefully.
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