Rémi Groussin

Born in 1987 in Toulouse (France), he lives and works there.

The title of Remi Groussin's first solo exhibition shows his interest in cinema and, more broadly, in popular culture. Cuesta Verde is indeed the name of the Californian suburb in which the action of the film Poltergeist takes place. In the same vein of inspiration, he names some of his works after American television series (Prison Break, 2011 or Six Feet Under, 2013), walks the halls of the K20 museum in Düsseldorf with spectacular accident make-up, or creates a fake American night from rushes of night-time landscapes he travels through. This common culture is reflected in the repertoire of motifs and situations that he explores: the world of cars, motorbikes, music, sports and parties. Thus a relationship of connivance is established with the spectator, all the more so as the artist plays with discrepancy (the drummer taps on piles of boots) and trompe-l'oeil (the floor of Déca'Dance is aluminium foil imitating anti-slip plates) and invites participation: sawing through the bars of a prison in Prison Break or accelerating the fall of a grandstand in Le Furiami.