Philippe Mayaux is a French visual artist born in 1961, who seeks, pronounces or denounces a sense of the world through his representations. From expression to symbol, meaning slips into this gap between reality and its repetition, adding a perspective to the latter whose reality is essentially orphaned. The sculpted or painted image is his preferred mechanism. Heir to a constant questioning of this mechanism, even in its social and political consequences; heir to the immense modern adventure provisionally concluded by abstraction, as well as surrealism or kitsch; and inventor of and heir to the arts of attitude and installation, the artist adds an additional distance to the mechanism of the image that could be translated in the expression "faire image", to make into an image. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize.
