Jean-Baptiste Decavèle

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Jean-Baptiste Decavele is a French video artist.

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Born in Grenoble in 1961, Decavele works with representations of memory and effacement through video and photography. Since 1999 he has held solo exhibitions in Paris, Ivry sur Seine, Winnipeg, Toronto and Vancouver and has participated in video festivals and presentations in Rome and France. He received the Villa Medicis Hors les Murs award in 1999 for his video Nostalgie, la Demeurance et l'Icone and again in 2001 for Entre Ciel et Mer, Voyage Aide Memoire. His video Replis (1999) is dealing with the concept of memory and lack thereof, presence and absence, while questioning issues of the gaze and of representation. The oulipian writer Hervé Le Tellier has written a book, Inukshuk, using Replis videograms.