Pierre Ardouvin expresses himself through several mediums, but he is best known for his installations. They often consist of prosaic objects that he appropriates to invite us to consider them in a new, more poetic light. In this respect, his work descends from the Dada movement and Marcel Duchamp’s readymades. Popular culture is also a source of inspiration for this artist, who is fascinated by its visual and sonic effects and by the sense of ephemerality that emerges from it. He reinterprets our relationship with the stage, the spectacle, and illusion with stagings that reveal a complex representation of the world between happiness, nostalgia, and disenchantment.

Born in 1955 in Crest (France), Pierre Ardouvin lives and works in Paris.