Home
ArchiveBorn in 1969, France
Lives and works in Paris and New York
In his installations, photographs, drawings and films, Alain Declercq
explores the structures of power and the forms of oppression that they
engender – security schizophrenia, surveillance and media manipulation.
Declercq’s technique of inversion transforms him into an image hunter, an
instigator of dysfunction, a turner of tables and general troublemaker.To
achieve his aims, he is ready to put himself on the line, without
that bulletproof jacket, constantly exposing himself in shadowing,
infiltration, investigation or manipulation. Declercq has managed to
transpose the spy novel into the field of the visual arts – for espionage is
very much the issue here.Declercq’s critical vision of our world thwarts our
quotidian and goads our certainties. Between real danger and absurd
contrariness, the artist’s apparent paranoia amuses, disturbs or sets teeth
on edge.
(Introduction by Jeanne Susplugas, extract of the catalogue Textes / Texts,
Editions Loevenbruck, Paris, April 2009)
 Alain Declercq, BORDERS / NORTH KOREA, Rifle shots on wood, 180 X 240 cm, 2008. |
