Olivier Sévère

Hors jeu & Simili

Aside from the physical notions of weight, form and gravity that ­characterize sculpture, Olivier Sévère questions the language of the discipline itself. Through a process of diversion, he deliberately uses ­inappropriate materials to reinterpret manufactured objects. He chooses marble, glass, bronze or porcelain to materialize his works and give them sense or, rather, “non-sense.” This acute look at the ­materiality that ­surrounds us introduces a resistance to the real and explores ­contradictory concepts such as fragile and solid, presence and absence, reality and fiction. In Sévère’s sculptures, form coincides with ­tangibility, whereas the content tends towards improbability and the idea of ­reversibility.