Louis Jacquot

Lives and works in Paris, France

Artist statement

I am interested not only in making images, but also in how physical, spatial, and social contexts shape the way they are experienced. My practice begins with painting, but treats the image less as an autonomous surface than as a spatial and bodily event. I make paintings, sculptures, installations, and objects in which familiar forms like furniture, domestic utensils, household textiles or industrial materials become perceptual devices. A rocking chair reorganises the act of looking through movement; a painting placed inside an aluminium bowl is transformed by curvature, reflections, and changing lights. The work is often developed in response to a specific site, whose architecture becomes part of its meaning. By shifting the scale, position, and function of objects, I aim to disturb stable vision and ask the viewer to move, adjust their gaze, and become aware of balance, distance, and orientation. I am interested in the moment when perception becomes uncertain ; when an image produces vertigo, discomfort, or a heightened awareness of one’s own body. Looking is not neutral, it is not universal. What we perceive depends on our physical position, memories, social experience, and relationship to the space around us. By making perception unstable, my work creates situations in which individual responses coexist within a shared environment. The artwork becomes less a fixed object than an encounter shaped by bodies, places, and the presence of others.

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