Artist / Performer / Set Designer
Born in 1996, Fabio Deronzier lives and works in Paris.
Plastic artist, performer, video artist, his practice is also accompanied by curatorial work around so-called radical performance.
Although he works increasingly with performative forms, it’s clear that he thinks like a visual artist and that painting remains a guiding line in his practice through its meticulous approach, constraints and structural dimension. The practice of stock-shot among his preferred forms, enables him to delve into the question of difference and cleavage, between expectation and narrative, between the single and the multiple, to create moments of confusion or duplication, with no other denouement than the real represented as the final work. Like a ghostly weft, the political and aesthetic stakes of his productions consist in twisting to the maximum the filming and construction capacities of an image to reveal another image itself staggered by its losses, its voids, its accidental exits. All his videos and decisions thus become fragments of situations carried to their maximum amplitude.
His performance work has been presented in duos and groups at the Nef de Pantin (2023), especially within the Nux Vomica program of which he is the founder. He was invited by Le Générateur to perform as a duo with Tristan Robquin at the 11th edition of Pile ou Frasq (March 2023). He presented the show Nail Polish and Ecological Drama as part of the program for the Nouvoitout festival in Brittany (2022). Inscribed in a period of reflection around performative work, its place and involvement as actor and/or curator, he was able to work on this questioning in the European residencies of Performing Arts Forum in Saint Erme (2022), in the committed performative residency center Massia in Estonia (2022) and at Krušče Creative Center in Slovenia (2023).
His entry into the performative field is closely linked to the artistic career of Tristan Robquin (artist, performer), with whom he has been working since 2015 in the form of videos, performances and curations around aesthetic experience where the word experience is taken, Roland Barthes would have said, to “degree zero”. Together, they work on forms of representation that can be defined as radical, experimental performance, on the border of the extreme, mainly on the limits of the performing body and the shortening of distances between the arts and civil life. An aesthetic that, unlike great cinematic special effects, seeks to create evanescent micro-events that exacerbate the tension of expectation in the spectator. This means of performance implies privileging the perception of physical, optical, sonic and olfactory phenomena over the refocusing and fragmentation of time. Conceived as a momentary, mobile and changeable arrangement, their performances are almost always at the limit of what is possible for their bodies and their role as artists.
With Tristan Robquin, he forms a high-tension performance duo built around experimentation, where visual and performing arts meet to better challenge their physical and artistic limits.
Their new creation Disgorging at low pressure premieres on April 10, 2025 at Le Générateur.
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