Xavier Veilhan

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Xavier Veilhan (born in 1963, in Lyon) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris.

He studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1981 to 1983. He attended classes at the Hochschule Des Kunste in 1984 in Berlin and enrolled in the Institut Des Hautes Etudes En Arts Plastiques in 1989 in Paris.

His artistic approach connects him to artist like Pierre Bismuth, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster and Franck Scurti. Yet, he may also be linked to the older generation, like Alain Sechas, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Bertrand Lavier and Daniel Buren.

Veilhan's photographs, sculptures and installations are direct evocations of generic objects in everyday-life (cars, machines, animals, people), gathered in an encyclopaedic world of images where, however, nothing is treated in its true materiality or its usual colors. Veilhan attempts to set up an image glossary disturbing the viewer as a potential narrator.