Jérémy Gobé

Lives and works in Martel, France

Artist statement

Jérémy Gobé’s work is built around a central idea echoing Auguste Rodin: "Art that possesses life does not reproduce the past; it continues it." He engages with objects lacking a purpose and unshaped works, with workers lacking work and materials lacking workers. Through his exhibitions in France (Palais de Tokyo, CENTQUATRE-Paris, Fondation Bullukian, etc.) and internationally (Bass Museum Miami, Hangzhou China Museum, Shanghai Yuz Museum, etc.), his works compel a reconnection with the living world; by adapting, projecting, and transforming traditional craftsmanship, Gobé invites us to use our imagination to reflect on solutions for contemporary challenges. More recently, in 2017, he launched a concrete initiative: “Corail Artefact”, a project spanning art, science, industry, and education aimed at saving coral reefs.

Artwork

• Neptune’s Brain - Mesh, Erythro, 2026. Jacquard-knitted reclaimed wool and fashion-industry textile scraps
• The Star and the Brain - Equation, Erythro, 2026. Real-time generative video
• Immersion 1 - CCA1, 2025. Modular sculpture in CCA1 ecological concrete, BCA1 biopolymer coral-fragment attachment system, coral fragments, plant-fiber rope
• Neptune’s Brain - CCA2, 2023. CCA2 ecological concrete developed by the artist, recycled metal structure, plant-based mesh, iridescent patina
• In the Soil, Perhaps the Future, 2022. Wool knit, wooden structure, clothes loaned by Emmaüs, five 3D-printed biopolymer sculptures
• 400,000 Cocoons, 2017. 400,000 silk cocoons, coated silk fabric, reclaimed metal rod
• Liberty Leading the Wool, 2014. Reclaimed wool knitted in jacquard, wooden cleats, staples
• Corail Restauration (variation 6), 2011, 2011. Coral skeleton, construction wall plugs, reclaimed furniture