Background
Benoit Maire was born in 1978, in Pessac, France.
Benoit Maire was born in 1978, in Pessac, France.
Benoit Maire studied visual art and philosophy at Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux, at the Villa Arson in Nice, and at the Sorbonne where he began doctoral studies in philosophy, which he subsequently abandoned in 2006. He also did graduate work at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Since 2008 Benoit Maire has started writing a manual of aesthetics where images, objects and writing take form to bring forth some of contemporary aesthetics' main issues.
Starting from the differend (insurmountable conflict) between saying and seeing, Benoit Maire works in an in-between where art and philosophy merge into a practical use where forms spread out and surpass one another. Neither philosophy, nor art, the Aesthetics of differends looks to corrupt classical formats by the experimental use of theory.
Recents solo exhibitions included Spiaggia di menzogne, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, Weapon, David Roberts Art Fondation, London, 2013, History of Geometry, Walden Affairs Den Haage, History of Geometry, Halle Für Kunst, Luneburg, The Object of Criticism, De Vleeshal, Midelburg, Soon the metal between us will turn into gold, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, 2011.
Benoit directed a full-length film, Repetition Island, presented at Tate Modern, in London and at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris. Recents publications include History of Geometry, Archive Books, The Object of Criticism, Roma Publication and Benoit Maire, Drawing Room Confession. Benoit Maire lives and works in Paris.
Maire believes that he is “doing philosophy, but a type of philosophy that draws on objects and methods derived from art.”
Quotations:
“There are two types of voices, according to the ancient Greeks: the articulated voice, phōnē énarthros, which is clear, and the confused voice, phōnē synkechyméne, where articulation is lacking. I have always been more interested in the latter.”
“Artwork is something that comes into existence and may contain truthful elements and truth effects, if the event in which it originated is somehow relevant for that purpose.”