Xolo Cuintle is an artist duo formed in 2020 by Romy Texier (1995, San Francisco) and Valentin Vie Binet (1996, Paris) who live in Paris and work in Aubervilliers. After graduating from Duperré School, the duo did a year-long residency at the Manufacture des Gobelins (2019 - 2020, Paris) as part of a studies programme with Mobilier national.
The duo create petrified and deserted scenes through the use of concrete which they see as a geological surface emblematic of the challenges of our contemporary era. This material, seemingly immutable and inert, is sculpted like a fertile soil in which hybrid organisms flourish. Using ornament as a temporal marker, each of their sculptures becomes a constituent element of a common history blurring the linear conception of time. Speculative in nature, mixing the current events and ancient mythologies, their stories explore the history of soils and the forms of life that compose them. ...
