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In "The Watcher," Antoine Condé employs monochromatic tones to render a hauntingly realistic visage adorned with cryptic text and fragmented elements. The piece captures a face, expressions obscured by handwritten words, while beads add a tactile element. Blurring digital and physical realms, Condé’s style intricately combines graphite with digital influences, creating an illusion of depth and texture. The artwork reflects on memory and media's influence, embodying Condé’s fascination with digital archives and personal narratives. ...
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Antoine Condé shapes fleeting digital moments into hauntingly tactile works that blur the line between virtual and physical worlds. Drawing from an expansive digital archive composed of paused frames—from series and reality TV to vintage porn—he constructs poetic compositions that translate pixels into delicate pencil and eraser marks with skin-like precision. His work features fragmented bodies, everyday relics, and faces caught mid-expression, reassembled through intimate graphite collages that navigate the textures of memory and the rawness of pop culture. Condé’s art bridges desire and distance, celebrating the interplay between the digital archive and material embodiment. By articulating his practice between intricate drawings and immersive installations inspired by storytelling, Condé invites viewers into spaces where memory, media, and personal narratives intertwine. ...
DS Galerie is a contemporary art gallery based in Paris. After six years of being a nomad curatorial project (2016–2022), Double Séjour has now become DS Galerie, implemented in Paris and fully metamorphosing into a gallery. The gallery represents and invites French and international artists, mainly from the emerging scene. DS Galerie takes part in international fairs such as Art-O-Rama (Marseille), Paris Photo (FR) and Material (MEX).