Benjamin Loyauté (born in 1979 in Normandy, France) is known as a story-teller, for his committed statement and work on the ordinary and intangible heritage, the forms of beliefs and contemporary changes. Through poetic systems, his practice and artwork explore new situations.
He is focused in the forms of appropriation of our faculties of perception. He is leading thinking on our contemporary societies through the magical & political status of the ordinary. He works with a variety of mediums from films, sculptures to public interventions and installations.
Inspired by the reinvention of the common good and models of society for several years, the artist studies the value of things that seem ordinary to us and explores our modes of evaluation, between desire and belief. His sculptures play with our perception of value, oftenly subject to external conditioning that inevitably shapes our expectations, our attention and its deficit.
His research and his work have been studied and defined as infra-politics by sociologist and researcher at the Laboratory of Anthropology and History of the institution of culture.
He represented the French Pavilion of the 1st London international Art/Design Biennale, Utopia - at the Somerset House in 2016 with an installation including the premiere of the film The Astounding Eyes Of Syria. For the last few years, as a story-teller, a novelist-sculptor, he draws the never-ending artwork - What have you found out so far ? - an evolutive epic work combining many mediums. Since its inception, he is recognized for his research around language and Speech Acts. His work is linked with social sciences, phenomenology, fables and Kōan.
Loyauté spent many years experimenting with the affordance. He was invited to participate in workshops, colloquia, conferences and residences (Geneva University of Art & Design; University of Tsinghua, Beijing; University of Shanghai; Mudam Luxembourg; UCL, Arts & Sciences Dpt, London; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Science Po & Université Paris IV Sorbonne, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Création Industrielle; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Design Miami/Basel; Ithra Museum, Dammām…)
In 2015, his curated exhibition Hypervital was seen as seminal and recognized as a turning point in his practice, inverting the system. From then he has developed his own format of artistic intervention seen at the MAMAC-Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain Saint Etienne, France; MUDAM & Casino Contemporary Art Center Luxembourg; Palazzo Clerici & Del Stelline Milano, Italy; Power Station of Art Shanghaï, China; Baalbek archeo site, Lebanon; Parco Archeologico Selinunte, Sicilia; National Museum of the History of Immigration - Palais de la Porte Dorée Paris, France; KANAL-Centre Pompidou ; Fondation Boghossian Brussels, Belgium…
Selected publications
Benjamin Loyauté/ The Melody Of Speech Art Book Limited Edition 100 ex 544 pages + booklet of 16 pages Conversation & text by Catherine Hug , Emmanuelle Prak-Derrington. Language : french & english version
- 14 x 20,5 cm Parution : Septembre 2022 ISBN 978-2-37372-158-4 Editions Dilecta Paris
What have you found out so far ?
Benjamin Loyauté
96 pages - 12 x 16,5 cm
Texts by Alicia Knock, Gemma Daou
Language : french/english
Parution : September 2019 ISBN 9782373720808 Editions Dilecta Paris
Benjamin Loyauté
Heterotopia, Affordance & New Pragmatism
112 pages - 15 × 21 cm Texts by Géraldine Sfez, Véronique Dassié, Benjamin Loyauté
Language : french (English version available)
Parution : April 2017 ISBN 978-2-37372-034-1 Editions Dilecta Paris
Le bruit des bonbons - The Astounding Eyes of Syria
Benjamin Loyauté
400 pages - 17 x 24 cm
Texts by Barbara Casavecchia, Clarisse Gorokhoff, Véronique Grandpierre, France Desmarais, Sophie Cluzan, Florence Ostende
Language : french/english/arabic
Parution : June 2016 ISBN 978-2-37372-015-0
Aesthetic consciousness ? Text in Les Sens du Beau
Benjamin Loyauté
344 pages Collectif Directed by Benjamin Loyauté
Language : french version & english version
Parution : March 2015 ISBN 2912808618
studio : studio@benjaminloyaute.co.uk