Hubert Marot
SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
Chaotic Human Nature emphasises the loss of our current existences while still conceding a certain tenderness. In a riot of post-Y2K images fit dried thistles; monumental beach fairground bubbles; cyan blue BMW bodywork eaten away by wear and tear in the PACA region; Space Age or Marine industrial Chinese glassware; the silhouette of a man immobilised on the second floor of a Haussmann building surrounded by the red luminescent diodes of pedestrian crossing lights; inflatable plastic swimming pools with imperfect roundness in which a white picnic chair sits; Seaside Tuk-Tuk stamped with a Lamborghini sticker; these photographs of the artist connote a world of emptiness, an apathetic reality where everything is celebrated and by the same token everything becomes disenchanted.
Text by curator Pierre-Alexandre Mateos.
Chaotic Human Nature is published on the occasion of Hubert Marot's eponymous exhibition at ZÉRUÌ, London.
About the artist
Hubert Marot (b. 1986) graduated from Gobelins – l’École de l’image in Photography (2009). He lives and works in Paris.
Hubert Marot’s practice is illusionistic: photographs are paintings, installations sculptures; but is also prudent, wise, meticulous. It comes from observation, from the careful gaze he takes around him. His work is also marked by a form of mysterious triviality and a penchant for antiquity, the imperishable, a race that he knows is lost in advance.
His work has been exhibited both in France and internationally in solo and group exhibitions such as Studiolo, FR; Fonda Space, DE ; Sans Titre Gallery, FR; High Art Gallery, FR; Fondation Ricard, FR ; Fondation Vuitton, FR; Galerie Until Then, FR; The Camera Club of New York, USA; The Pill, TR; La Friche Belle de Mai, FR. His work is represented in public collections such as the BNF and the Centre Pompidou.
In 2017, he founded the nomadic curatorial project Shivers Only (shiversonly.com) which he has directed for since. His work has been featured in It’s Nice That, Dust, Contemporary Art Daily, Kuba Paris, among others.
Edition of 100
86 pages
190 x 290 mm, portrait
ISBN 978-1-917282-11-6