Série "Horizonto"

In a form of artistic road-trip, Olivier Crouzel embarks aboard Le Collectionneur, a camper van transformed into a living and exhibition space by Zébra 3, an association for the dissemination and production of contemporary art based in Bordeaux. For his project, the artist turned it into a mobile residence, choosing to travel down the Atlantic coast, orienting himself only on the roads and paths to his right in order to reach the horizon… A path strewn with pitfalls that he inaugurates at the end of two years of pandemic, in the summer of 2021. As in many of his works, he sets up a creative protocol, triggering the camera 3 minutes before arriving at the seaside. There, he films people and sights, offering our gaze an elsewhere that he has gone in search of with obstinacy and disobedience.

Olivier Crouzet

Born in 1973 in Fès (Morocco) I Lives and works in Bordeaux (France)

Since the 1990s (in parallel with his graphic arts studies), Olivier Crouzel has been developing a practice somewhere between contemporary art and documentary form, combining video, photography and installations. He uses video projection as a means of disseminating engaged works linked to landscape and societal issues. His work has been exhibited at the Nuit de l’instant in Marseille (1st prize), at the PanOramas art biennial in Bordeaux, at the Nuit Blanche in Paris and Metz, at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and at the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in the creative documentary Zero Impunity.

Gift of the artist.