Pierre Dumaire's "Cruising (Green Bandana)" features a predominantly green color palette with intricate white paisley patterns reminiscent of a traditional bandana. The composition is rectangular, highlighting the symmetrical and repetitive design elements typical of such textiles. The artwork employs a contemporary style with an emphasis on bold graphic impressions and cultural symbols. The piece reflects Dumaire's exploration of visual language and identity within homosexual culture, using the discreet yet recognizable motif of the bandana to comment on communication and coded exchanges. ...
Pierre Dumaire studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna as well as at the Duperré School in Paris, and he graduated in 2025 from the studio of Eva Nielsen and Mireille Blanc at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Pierre Dumaire’s work is grounded in the exchange of signs and the development of a visual language specific to homosexual culture, which he explores through scenes on silk and paper in which gazes, dress codes, bandanas, printed patterns, and gestures revealing the body appear. In large-scale works, this circulation of desire—oscillating between disclosure and frontality—echoes the strategies of advertising, while playing with systems of recognition and the transfer of values specific to this community.
His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Ancien Évêché in Toulon (2022 and 2023) and at Village Reille in Paris (2021). He was in residence in 2022 at Villa Noailles to prepare the exhibition Objets Modernes, and in 2016, for one year, in the tapestry workshop of the Manufacture des Gobelins. He also published a monographic edition, “Corps, souviens-toi”, with Maëlle Brientini (2021).
He has also taken part in several group exhibitions, including at Galerie Marcelle Alix in Paris (2025), Galerie 22,48m² in Romainville (2025), the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2025) by invitation of Elizabeth Peyton, Galerie John Ferrère (2023), Galerie ODA in Paris (2022), Villa Noailles in Hyères (2022 and 2020), and Couvent Levat in Marseille (2019).
In 2025, he will also take part in the 23rd International Printmaking Biennale in Sarcelles (95) and will present his first solo exhibition at DS Galerie in 2026. ...
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).
