Martin
Le Chevallier

UP . 14.09.2016

Born in 1968

Lives and works in Rennes

Represented by Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris

jousse-entreprise.com/fr

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Ocean Shield, 2009
Photo : © cbx41.com

Martin Le Chevallier was born in May 1968 into a family of left-wing Catholics. He started his career as a graphic designer, first working in collaboration with others (Roman Cieslewicz, Pierre Bernard, and the collective of designers Tamanoir), and then solo. The 1995 general strikes in France prompted him to auto-produce his own political posters. But it was his meeting with Jean-Charles Massera, who invited him in 1997 to participate in an exhibition, that was to lead him to contemporary art. Wager 1.0, his contribution to the exhibition, is aninteractive CD-ROM that plays on corporate jargon. Having discovered the potentials of interactivity, he went on to create other worksexploring the possibilities of […]