Gilles Pourtier
Born in 1980 in Romans-sur-Isère, Gilles Pourtier lives and works in Marseille. He began by studying Modern Letters, before embarking on a glassmaker’s training in Nancy at the Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation aux Arts Verriers (CERFAV) He worked for four years in London at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College and then at the Westminster Adult Education Service.
In 2006 he joined the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles (ENSP) where he graduated in 2009. During his years of study in Arles, he developed a personal work combining photography, multimedia, and video. His approach is in a quasi-ethnographic vein.
It is by choosing to work in collaboration with a marble work that the artist understands the work of the polished stone. The marble worker first provides him with funerary steles, on the surface of which we can perceive our own reflection.
Private Choice presents its series of masks, also made of marble stone. At the base of any washing machine, such as a foundation, is a concrete block to stabilize the household appliance when the centrifugal force of its rotation is too strong. It is this geometric form, surprisingly anthropomorphic, that Gilles Pourtier chose to reproduce in marble. He decides not to keep the initial position of the mechanical tool, but to straighten it, thus creating a curious face.
Biography
Gilles Pourtier is born in 1980 in Romans-sur-Isère. He lives and works in Marseille.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
- Etudes de Lettres Modernes
CERFAV (Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation aux Arts Verriers), Nancy Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College, Londres
Westminster Adult Education Service, Londres - 2006 – 09 / ENSP (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie), Arles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2022 -2023 / Filiations 2 & la Donation Albers-Honegger, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux
- 2021 – 2022 / Structures de l’apparence, Point du Jour, Cherbourg
- 2021 / Rodéo Sauvage, château de Servières, Marseille
- 2018 / Deucalion et Pyrrha, La Cartine, Marseille
- 2017 / A home is not a house, Straat Gallery, Marseille
- 2013 / Vztahy (exposition suite à la résidence de création), Kosice, Slovaquie
- 2011 / Un peu plus loin de l’autre côté de la rue des néons clignotaient deux fois moins vite que mon coeur, La Compagnie, Marseille
- 2011 / La grande surface de réparation, 3bisF, Aix-en-Provence
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2022 / Lignes de vie / Life lines, Private Choice, Paris
- 2021 / Odyssée / Odyssey, Private Choice, Paris
- 2020 / Voyage intérieur / Inner journey, Private Choice, Paris
- 2019 / Affinités / Affinities, Private Choice, Paris
- 2016 / They shoot horses, they don’t demolish barns, L’Escaut, Bruxelles
- 2015 / Exposition du Prix des Résidents des Ateliers de la Ville de Marseille, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
- 2013 / Entretenir des choses matérielles, Forum Kunst & Architektur, Essen, Allemagne
- 2012 / Ceux qui arrivent, Le Bal, Paris
- 2012 / Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd’hui
- 2009 / Une attention particulière, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles
RESIDENCIES
- 2022 / Résidence Marbrerie Anastay, Saint-Remy-de-Provence
- 2013 / Résidence de création en collaboration avec la photographe Anne-Claire Broc’h, février et octobre aux îles de Batz et d’Ouessant
- 2013 / Résidence de création (Capitale Européenne de la Culture en 2013) , Kosice, Slovaquie
- 2011 / Résidence de recherche au 3bisF, Aix-en-Provence