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  • The PERMANENT exhibition of the Arc de Triomphe conceived and directed by Maurice Benayoun and Christophe Girault, architect, is being dismantled to give place to a souvenir shop.

    To react to this obscene act of institutional vandalism, Maurice...
  • Back to Back -
    Two people, watching Blind Love Ready Made are sitting, earphones on, in front of their show, generated abstract shapes moving at the rythm of an invisible couple orgasmic vocalizations.
    This solitary pleasure is only disturbed by the fact to...
  • Stolen Life -
    Two concepts have marked 21st century creation, the metaphysical consequence of which is obvious to everyone, despite their apparent differences.

    The first is the idea that it is the spectator who creates the picture and the second is that the...
  • White Cube -
    The spirit of contemporary art

    Most of the sensible minds have understood, since now long, that there is no reason to produce significant artwork nor explore virgin territories. It is a fundamental fact: it has to « be like contemporary art »…as...
  • Out of the dump -
    communiqué Centre des Arts

    Pour ce dernier volet de la saison, le centre des arts invite l’esprit prolifique de Maurice Benayoun à investir ses espaces ainsi que ceux de la Médiathèque George Sand d’Enghien-les-Bains autour de deux propositions...
  • L’exposition à la médiathèque George Sand présente le travail vidéo de Maurice Benayoun - La série Quarxs réalisée entre 1990 et 1993 en collaboration avec le dessinateur de bandes dessinées François Schuiten et l'écrivain Benoît Peeters. une des...
  • Dildomatic Opera -

    Discovering the secrets of nostalgic "circuit bending" it seems that here the drive immediately sadistic turns of its true purpose. The crushing nature of games against child trying to convert sounds, notes and voice stuttering, screaming,...
  • Sans Armes Citoyens -
    Two years before the turn of the century, a committee chaired by Jean-Jacques Aillagon, at the time director of the Centre Pompidou, was entrusted with the task of defining the ceremonies to celebrate the millennium. Oddly enough, I was invited to...
  • La première acquisition du fonds FAME de soutien à la création Emotion Forecast est bâtit sur le modèle des systèmes prédictifs du stock market.

    Que se passerait-il si l’économie et les échanges étaient fondés sur l’état émotionnel de la planète....
  • Step and Shoot -
    Bored by a vision of the world dominated by B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) that seem for so many people to be the only way to consider human interactions, I would like to start a series of works called H2H: Human to Human.
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