Antoine Donzeaud

His practice exploressocial structures and narrative fictions of contemporary society with regards to architecture and space, identity and community. Antoine Donzeaud’s work has expanded across his various formats : deconstructed frames, screen printing on top of advertising tarps, industrial windows or even videos. The work of Antoine Donzeaud acts by propagation. It is related to architecture through the verticality of its formats, through its reference to the frame, through the structure of construction and the horizontality of displacement, of walking, of wandering. In its form, minimalism meets the urban footprint of advertising and graffiti. This relationship to architecture is vast, inspired by the photographic series of abandoned houses by John Divola and the gigantic cuttings of Gordon Matta-Clark. It is also contradictory because it is bound as much to the building as to its deconstruction. But above all it is intimate, it is born of an obsession, a fascination of the artist for a meta-language digital and urban, a desire to tell the stories of those who live there. ...