Michel Francois

Michel François’s work is multidisciplinary (photography, video, installations, sculpture, drawings, etc.) and multifaceted, not tied to any particular style or guiding principle. He favours the reuse of everyday objects (plates, bottles, light bulbs) or organic materials (ropes, inks, fabrics, flowers), which are recycled, assembled or broken to form sculptures or installations that exude a power and a beauty imbued with poetry.  In Domestic, fragments of porcelain plates suspended from long threads float, crystallising a delicate balance between gravity and weightlessness, and between the ordinary and the strange. The transformed material (the porcelain plates) seeks to unsettle the viewer, inviting them to see another world or to view the world differently. Behind the aesthetic beauty of the work often lies another meaning that refers to societal issues; here, Domestic undoubtedly alludes to domestic life and its underlying violence, as evidenced by the broken plates.

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