Yoann Penard, Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory member, provides some fascinating insights into his practice and experience as a contemporary sculptor, as he responds to the questions below:
- If you had to choose only three words that you feel describe your work, what would they be? And why?
- Many things inundate our daily lives. What role do you feel art and the artist still have in today’s society?
- If you could collaborate with any artist, dead or alive, who would it be with and why?
- What do you think is the single most important piece of advice you have been given as an artist?
If you had to choose only three words that you feel describe your work, what would they be? And why?
If I had to choose three words to describe my work, they would be mythology, animism, and strange. Mythology and animist cultures are my main sources of inspiration for my research. The strange challenges our certainties and the boundaries between the tangible and the intangible.
Many things inundate our daily lives. What role do you feel art and the artist still have in today’s society?
For me, art and artists are the mirror of our times. They are the lungs of our collective intelligence. They are both guardians and whistleblowers. They are the barometer of our societies’ well-being. The artist questions and repairs the world; they open the door to the invisible.
If you could collaborate with any artist, dead or alive, who would it be with and why?
There are so many incredible artists… a collaboration with a choreographer or musician like Philip Glass, for example, to create a scenography or an installation.
What do you think is the single most important piece of advice you have been given as an artist?
Work tirelessly and know how to be resilient.
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