INSTALLATIONS
Toutes les histoires simultanément.
2024
dried plants, steel sculptures and furniture, 3D animations
in collaboration with Wilfried Dsainbayonne & Noah Truong
" Il y a des jours, moi, je me réveille et j’aime plus le sol sous mes pieds. Je le prends en grippe. J’aime pas sa couleur ni sa texture ni le contact ami-ami qu’il veut faire avec mes pieds. Je le déteste et je veux le regarder qu’en biais et j’aimerais même qu’il disparaisse de mon champ de vision. J’aime plus la terre sous mes pieds ça m’énerve même qu’elle existe. Dans des moments comme ça, je suis bien obligé de faire quelque chose. C’est pénible et puis c’est ridicule et où je peux aller d’autre ? Alors, je fais ce que je sais faire le mieux. J’entre dans une pièce. Une pièce vide qui n’appartient à personne, juste des murs blancs et un sol envers lequel je n’ai encore aucun sentiment fort, et je dis :
C’est ma maison.
Voilà. C’est ma maison. Une maison sans ambition, ni histoire ni serrure.
D’aucuns diraient « un moulin », moi je dis juste que toustes celleux qui y passent peuvent se déclarer chez elleux. Ça me dérange pas. Je suis pas comme ça. Ça me plaît que tout le monde ait envie de passer et s’installer aussi dans ma maison. La maison de tout le monde. Pas grosse mais enfin tout le monde n’a pas besoin de beaucoup de place. Juste un petit endroit juste un petit bout de terre auquel on puisse chuchoter, chuchoter tout bas en se baissant jusqu’à elle, jusqu’à ses premiers grains : c’est toi, ma terre.
*
Parfois, on a une histoire à raconter, mais on ne sait pas par où commencer. Surtout quand cette histoire est compliquée et qu’elle a beaucoup de couches, d’épaisseurs qui se sont déposées les unes par-dessus et à côté des autres, amenées par le temps, les gens et les morceaux de pays qui leur ont collé aux paumes et aux pieds. On a pas envie de la résumer et on a pas envie de la raconter seule. Alors, quand on est artiste plasticienne, comme Kim Doan Quoc, et qu’on a l’opportunité de monter une exposition au DOC ! pour la représenter, cette histoire, on invite un ami cher, lui aussi plasticien, comme Wilfried Dsainbayonne, pour qu’il vienne avec la sienne et que les histoires de l’une et de l’autre coexistent et nouent entre elles des liens. Qu’elles vivent ensemble dans une même « maison ».
Une exposition-maison peuplée d’œuvres-histoires dont l’habitation fragile témoigne de l’habileté et de la grâce nécessaires pour assembler, souder, clouer, mélanger le Congo et la France, le Vietnam et le métal, les fleurs et le tissu, l’éponge et l’objet, et tous les autres matériaux, ceux dont on hérite et ceux qui se présentent à nous et dont il faut trouver quoi faire.
Cette exposition-maison, imaginée par Kim Doan Quoc et Wilfried Dsainbayonne, sera ouverte du 8 au 22 novembre 2024 au DOC !, à Paris (19e). Elle accueillera aussi les textes du poète Noah Truong, invité par le duo de plasticiens à mêler ses propres histoires de terre, de pays, d’alliage et d’amitié au sol de leur « maison »."
texte d'introduction de Noah Truong
Some days, I wake up and don't like the ground under my feet anymore. I don't like it. I don't like its color or its texture or the friendly contact it wants to make with my feet. I hate it and I only want to look at it at an angle, and I'd even like it to disappear from my field of vision. I don't like the ground under my feet anymore, it annoys me that it even exists. At times like this, I have to do something. It's annoying and ridiculous, and where else can I go? So I do what I do best. I enter a room. An empty room that belongs to no one, just white walls and a floor towards which I still have no strong feelings, and I say:
This is my home.
This is it. This is my house. A house without ambition, history or locks.
Some might say “a mill”, but I just say that anyone who passes through can call it home. I don't mind. I'm not like that. I like it that everyone wants to come and settle in my house too. Everyone's house. It's not big, but not everyone needs a lot of space. Just a little place, just a little piece of earth that you can whisper to, whisper softly as you bend down to it, to its first grains: it's you, my earth.
*
Sometimes you have a story to tell, but you don't know where to start. Especially when it's a complicated story with many layers, layers that have been deposited one on top of the other and next to each other, brought about by time, people and the bits of country that have stuck to their palms and feet. We don't want to sum it up, and we don't want to tell it alone. So, when you're a visual artist, like Kim Doan Quoc, and you have the opportunity to mount an exhibition at DOC! to represent this story, you invite a dear friend, also a visual artist, like Wilfried Dsainbayonne, so that he can come with his own and so that the stories of both coexist and forge links between them. That they live together in the same “house”.
A house-show populated by story-works whose fragile dwelling testifies to the skill and grace required to assemble, weld, nail and mix Congo and France, Vietnam and metal, flowers and fabric, sponge and object, and all other materials, those we inherit and those that present themselves to us and that we have to figure out what to do with.
This in-house exhibition, imagined by Kim Doan Quoc and Wilfried Dsainbayonne, will be open from November 8 to 22, 2024 at DOC! in Paris (19th arrondissement). It will also feature texts by poet Noah Truong, invited by the visual artist duo to interweave his own stories of land, country, alliances and friendship with the floor of their “house”.
introduction text by Noah Truong
2024
dried plants, steel sculptures and furniture, 3D animations
in collaboration with Wilfried Dsainbayonne & Noah Truong
" Il y a des jours, moi, je me réveille et j’aime plus le sol sous mes pieds. Je le prends en grippe. J’aime pas sa couleur ni sa texture ni le contact ami-ami qu’il veut faire avec mes pieds. Je le déteste et je veux le regarder qu’en biais et j’aimerais même qu’il disparaisse de mon champ de vision. J’aime plus la terre sous mes pieds ça m’énerve même qu’elle existe. Dans des moments comme ça, je suis bien obligé de faire quelque chose. C’est pénible et puis c’est ridicule et où je peux aller d’autre ? Alors, je fais ce que je sais faire le mieux. J’entre dans une pièce. Une pièce vide qui n’appartient à personne, juste des murs blancs et un sol envers lequel je n’ai encore aucun sentiment fort, et je dis :
C’est ma maison.
Voilà. C’est ma maison. Une maison sans ambition, ni histoire ni serrure.
D’aucuns diraient « un moulin », moi je dis juste que toustes celleux qui y passent peuvent se déclarer chez elleux. Ça me dérange pas. Je suis pas comme ça. Ça me plaît que tout le monde ait envie de passer et s’installer aussi dans ma maison. La maison de tout le monde. Pas grosse mais enfin tout le monde n’a pas besoin de beaucoup de place. Juste un petit endroit juste un petit bout de terre auquel on puisse chuchoter, chuchoter tout bas en se baissant jusqu’à elle, jusqu’à ses premiers grains : c’est toi, ma terre.
*
Parfois, on a une histoire à raconter, mais on ne sait pas par où commencer. Surtout quand cette histoire est compliquée et qu’elle a beaucoup de couches, d’épaisseurs qui se sont déposées les unes par-dessus et à côté des autres, amenées par le temps, les gens et les morceaux de pays qui leur ont collé aux paumes et aux pieds. On a pas envie de la résumer et on a pas envie de la raconter seule. Alors, quand on est artiste plasticienne, comme Kim Doan Quoc, et qu’on a l’opportunité de monter une exposition au DOC ! pour la représenter, cette histoire, on invite un ami cher, lui aussi plasticien, comme Wilfried Dsainbayonne, pour qu’il vienne avec la sienne et que les histoires de l’une et de l’autre coexistent et nouent entre elles des liens. Qu’elles vivent ensemble dans une même « maison ».
Une exposition-maison peuplée d’œuvres-histoires dont l’habitation fragile témoigne de l’habileté et de la grâce nécessaires pour assembler, souder, clouer, mélanger le Congo et la France, le Vietnam et le métal, les fleurs et le tissu, l’éponge et l’objet, et tous les autres matériaux, ceux dont on hérite et ceux qui se présentent à nous et dont il faut trouver quoi faire.
Cette exposition-maison, imaginée par Kim Doan Quoc et Wilfried Dsainbayonne, sera ouverte du 8 au 22 novembre 2024 au DOC !, à Paris (19e). Elle accueillera aussi les textes du poète Noah Truong, invité par le duo de plasticiens à mêler ses propres histoires de terre, de pays, d’alliage et d’amitié au sol de leur « maison »."
texte d'introduction de Noah Truong
Some days, I wake up and don't like the ground under my feet anymore. I don't like it. I don't like its color or its texture or the friendly contact it wants to make with my feet. I hate it and I only want to look at it at an angle, and I'd even like it to disappear from my field of vision. I don't like the ground under my feet anymore, it annoys me that it even exists. At times like this, I have to do something. It's annoying and ridiculous, and where else can I go? So I do what I do best. I enter a room. An empty room that belongs to no one, just white walls and a floor towards which I still have no strong feelings, and I say:
This is my home.
This is it. This is my house. A house without ambition, history or locks.
Some might say “a mill”, but I just say that anyone who passes through can call it home. I don't mind. I'm not like that. I like it that everyone wants to come and settle in my house too. Everyone's house. It's not big, but not everyone needs a lot of space. Just a little place, just a little piece of earth that you can whisper to, whisper softly as you bend down to it, to its first grains: it's you, my earth.
*
Sometimes you have a story to tell, but you don't know where to start. Especially when it's a complicated story with many layers, layers that have been deposited one on top of the other and next to each other, brought about by time, people and the bits of country that have stuck to their palms and feet. We don't want to sum it up, and we don't want to tell it alone. So, when you're a visual artist, like Kim Doan Quoc, and you have the opportunity to mount an exhibition at DOC! to represent this story, you invite a dear friend, also a visual artist, like Wilfried Dsainbayonne, so that he can come with his own and so that the stories of both coexist and forge links between them. That they live together in the same “house”.
A house-show populated by story-works whose fragile dwelling testifies to the skill and grace required to assemble, weld, nail and mix Congo and France, Vietnam and metal, flowers and fabric, sponge and object, and all other materials, those we inherit and those that present themselves to us and that we have to figure out what to do with.
This in-house exhibition, imagined by Kim Doan Quoc and Wilfried Dsainbayonne, will be open from November 8 to 22, 2024 at DOC! in Paris (19th arrondissement). It will also feature texts by poet Noah Truong, invited by the visual artist duo to interweave his own stories of land, country, alliances and friendship with the floor of their “house”.
introduction text by Noah Truong
photographe : Maxence Doucet
_ You can wake me if you want to
2024
Fresh flowers, dried plants, steel sculptures, lights, 3D animation
performance : fairy tale, self-tattoo
2024
Fresh flowers, dried plants, steel sculptures, lights, 3D animation
performance : fairy tale, self-tattoo
photographe : Romain Guede
_(im)mortal
2023
Dried plants : Pampa grass, Datura, Hydrangea, Birch, Rose, Poppy, Peony, steel, polymer, 3D video projection
in collaboration with MaggZ
2023
Dried plants : Pampa grass, Datura, Hydrangea, Birch, Rose, Poppy, Peony, steel, polymer, 3D video projection
in collaboration with MaggZ
Copyright Salim Santalucia
_I CLOSE MY EYES, TAKE YOU AWAY TO PARADISE
2022
Dried flowers : Chamomile, Datura, Thistle, Poppy and St John's Wort, lead, steel, tin, copper, 3D video projection
2022
Dried flowers : Chamomile, Datura, Thistle, Poppy and St John's Wort, lead, steel, tin, copper, 3D video projection
_HAVRES GARDÉS N.2
2022
Interactive installation, 3D video, dried vegetals (hydrangea and pampas grass), steel, various textile, upholstery foam
variable dimensions
2022
Interactive installation, 3D video, dried vegetals (hydrangea and pampas grass), steel, various textile, upholstery foam
variable dimensions
_HAVRES GARDES N.3
2021
VR Environment, steel, lead, copper, faux fur, dried plants
In collaboration with Marcell Andristyak
2021
VR Environment, steel, lead, copper, faux fur, dried plants
In collaboration with Marcell Andristyak
TRASH FOREST from Kim Doan Quoc on Vimeo.
_TRASH FOREST
2021
Holographic projection, recycled cardboard, branches, painted tarps
Variable dimensions
In collaboration with Jamie Emerson
2021
Holographic projection, recycled cardboard, branches, painted tarps
Variable dimensions
In collaboration with Jamie Emerson
_HAVRES GARDÉS
2020
Installation
Holographic projection, Arduino system, dried plants, steel and leather
Variable dimensions
2020
Installation
Holographic projection, Arduino system, dried plants, steel and leather
Variable dimensions
Light Scapes from Kim Doan Quoc on Vimeo.
_LIGHT SCAPES
2020
Installation and performance
Holographic video-projection, branches, dried plants, fabric
In collaboration with Maëlle Morton and Ana Monteiro
Supported by Cultivamos Cultura
2020
Installation and performance
Holographic video-projection, branches, dried plants, fabric
In collaboration with Maëlle Morton and Ana Monteiro
Supported by Cultivamos Cultura
SubSub from Kim Doan Quoc on Vimeo.
_SUBSUB
2019
Interactive installation, immersive video-projection, recycled plastic, wood, plaster
In collaboration with James Emerson and Life Pass Filter
For the time the installation was up at XI Box in Lille, I invited other artists to perform within it.
Links to performances :
Gnozo + Krauma
Kim Doan Quoc & Jamie Emerson
Kim Doan Quoc, Diego Verastegui & Gnozo
2019
Interactive installation, immersive video-projection, recycled plastic, wood, plaster
In collaboration with James Emerson and Life Pass Filter
For the time the installation was up at XI Box in Lille, I invited other artists to perform within it.
Links to performances :
Gnozo + Krauma
Kim Doan Quoc & Jamie Emerson
Kim Doan Quoc, Diego Verastegui & Gnozo
Digital Canopy from Kim Doan Quoc on Vimeo.
_VAGUE HAVEN
2019
Video, animated paintings, branches, arduino system
presented at Wild Embeddings Gallery, curated by Wild Torus
Brooklyn, NYC, USA
Haven- a place of safety or refuge, a haven for wildlife
Vague - seemingly; apparently but not really
Vague Haven, a contemplation of the natural, lush, fertile paradise, an Eden of sorts, within the context of today’s technological culture. A place where lovers and refugees hide or take shelter as a community. This haven is intended to be a playground for creative interactions, performance and experimentation.
Interactive and immersive installation conceived by Kim Doan Quoc
Curated with Oya Damla and MAKS
Creative Direction, projection mapping, animation design and custom interactive projection systems by Kim Doan Quoc
Programming, installation design and arduino coding by Maxwell Abeles ( MAKS )
Sound Design, Production and Creative Direction by Oya Damla
Curatorial and Organizational support by Kira DeCoudres
Performing artists :
Tobaron Waxman
Jaguar Mary
Anna Hafner
Jamie Emerson & Lucas Kane
Senator C.H. Barney
What is this (Oya Damla, Kira deCoudres, Kim Doan Quoc)
2019
Video, animated paintings, branches, arduino system
presented at Wild Embeddings Gallery, curated by Wild Torus
Brooklyn, NYC, USA
Haven- a place of safety or refuge, a haven for wildlife
Vague - seemingly; apparently but not really
Vague Haven, a contemplation of the natural, lush, fertile paradise, an Eden of sorts, within the context of today’s technological culture. A place where lovers and refugees hide or take shelter as a community. This haven is intended to be a playground for creative interactions, performance and experimentation.
Interactive and immersive installation conceived by Kim Doan Quoc
Curated with Oya Damla and MAKS
Creative Direction, projection mapping, animation design and custom interactive projection systems by Kim Doan Quoc
Programming, installation design and arduino coding by Maxwell Abeles ( MAKS )
Sound Design, Production and Creative Direction by Oya Damla
Curatorial and Organizational support by Kira DeCoudres
Performing artists :
Tobaron Waxman
Jaguar Mary
Anna Hafner
Jamie Emerson & Lucas Kane
Senator C.H. Barney
What is this (Oya Damla, Kira deCoudres, Kim Doan Quoc)
_HYPERREAL
2018
Curation of a video series for Light Year 42
Projection on the Manhattan Bridge, Dumbo, NYC
Hyperreality is a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are seamlessly blended together. «Hyperreal» is an international art video program that presents artist videos showing slippery realities and sliding virtualities.
The pieces of the show gather around the idea that reality and fiction are only separated from each other by a very thin and blurry line. From performance art to 3D animation, going through video montage and endoscopic explorations, the selected artworks are a demonstration of the many ways fiction and reality can intricate each other. It is about the shapes we see, the scale we evaluate things with, the characters we create, the stories we tell.
At a time saturated with mixed information and propaganda on a world scale, it make sense to take a time to think about what is reality and how fiction can sometimes be part of it. Displayed in the public space, on the monumental architecture of Manhattan Bridge, the artworks invite themselves as disruptive guests in the passer-by’s reality.
Starring the work of Dario Alva, Zoé Brunet-Jailly, Kira DeCoudres, Fornax Void, Katya Grokhovsky, Paul Kusnierek-Numérobé, Malo Lacroix, Raphaël Moreira Gonçalves, Wild Torus, and Adam Zaretsky.
2018
Curation of a video series for Light Year 42
Projection on the Manhattan Bridge, Dumbo, NYC
Hyperreality is a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are seamlessly blended together. «Hyperreal» is an international art video program that presents artist videos showing slippery realities and sliding virtualities.
The pieces of the show gather around the idea that reality and fiction are only separated from each other by a very thin and blurry line. From performance art to 3D animation, going through video montage and endoscopic explorations, the selected artworks are a demonstration of the many ways fiction and reality can intricate each other. It is about the shapes we see, the scale we evaluate things with, the characters we create, the stories we tell.
At a time saturated with mixed information and propaganda on a world scale, it make sense to take a time to think about what is reality and how fiction can sometimes be part of it. Displayed in the public space, on the monumental architecture of Manhattan Bridge, the artworks invite themselves as disruptive guests in the passer-by’s reality.
Starring the work of Dario Alva, Zoé Brunet-Jailly, Kira DeCoudres, Fornax Void, Katya Grokhovsky, Paul Kusnierek-Numérobé, Malo Lacroix, Raphaël Moreira Gonçalves, Wild Torus, and Adam Zaretsky.