Chloé Royer

She graduated from the École des Beaux-Art in Paris and studied at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. By transforming materials or choreographing movement, she explores the potential of metamorphosis latent in all things, inanimate or alive.Playing with the concept of disequilibrium, this artist creates unusual forms and unexpected combinations. Ultimately, her works exist because of points of connection between things, such as skin on skin or surface to surface, drawing on strategies for repair and the care for the items themselves.She creates hybrids that defy categorisation, being neither human, animal nor thing, disrupting taxonomies and baffling our perceptions. The various components of her works speak to one another, and to the viewer, prompting sensual exchanges between human and materials. Chloé Royer blurs identities and makes us feel at ease with the strange. ...

The Galerie Derouillon, founded by Benjamin Derouillon, opened its doors in September 2012 at 38 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth in the Haut-Marais district, which is emerging as one of the new poles of contemporary art in Paris, with the desire to defend a young generation of French and international artists. The programme offers a singular vision of today's art in its diversity of modes of expression, with a particular emphasis on painting, sculpture and installations. The selection of artists has in common a demanding and playful work that breaks with established codes.