Jérémy Chevalier
Jérémy Chevalier was born in Ambilly, France, in 1983. He lives and works in Geneva.
Rock music, which Jérémy Chevalier practiced, is the first source of inspiration for his work as a visual artist. Using humor and derision, his objects, installations, performances and videos serve to highlight the instruments, tools, gestures and codes used in the entertainment industry, as well as spin-off effects, misfires, accidents that arouse from it.
Chevalier’s inventiveness is also fueled by his training in electrical engineering, since he can just as easily transform himself into a one-man-orchestra dressed in speakers, invent a microphone that lights up when we talked into, or grill sausages with the current that he generates by playing the electric guitar.
He highlights either the body’s relationship to music, the diffusion of sound, electrical circuits or the energy of movement. In his performances, the ordinary gestures of the singer, the guitarist or the disc jockey, not overplayed but rather "underplayed" as a discreet presence, are performed in a revealing setting with stacks of cassettes, multiplication of screens, duplication of images, showing the off-screen aspect of a performance, the anti-spectacular, the technical, textual and physical obstacles that must be overcome.
— Courtesy Anne-Belle Lecoultre
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