Jean Daviot, born in 1962 in Digne-les-Bains, studied at the Villa Arson in Nice and began his career in experimental cinema. He uses a variety of media: video, photography, painting and sound, as well as actions in the landscape to raise public awareness of the fragility of the environment. Jean Daviot is passionate about language in all its forms (words, sounds, signs or light…) and pays particular attention to its plasticity. He sculpts language as an object, revealing its alchemy and hidden meanings. Words say more than they seem to, and have fun leading us astray. Jean Daviot pushes them to withdraw into their deepest meanings, where they accentuate what seems trivial to us. His art draws on art history, prehistory, psychoanalysis and philosophy.
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