Monograph.
The Serralves Museum presents O'Ti'Lulabies, first solo exhibition by David Douard in Portugal, which he pursues his work initiated in the exhibition O'Ti'Lulaby displayed at the Frac Île de France, Paris, in 2021. Composed of sculptures, fragments of language, videos and sound recordings, this exhibition transforms the museum space. Playing with the superposition and transparency of the different architectural elements presented, the artist offers an environnement in which images, objects and bodies mutually contaminate each other and proliferate beyond the walls. exhibitions
This catalogue, which retraces these last two exhibitions, gathers a newly commissioned text by
François Piron and a recent conversation between the artist and Philippe Vergne. Beautifully illustrated with installation images from the presentation at Serralves, the book also includes a series of especially produced collages by the artist.
Published on the occasion of David Douard's exhibition "O'Ti'Lulabies" at Serralves, Porto, in 2022.
Born 1983 in Perpignan, David Douard lives and works in Aubervilliers (France).
Language is the very basis of his work. The texts and poems he collects on the Internet are manipulated, transformed in order to become a vital flow, feeding into his sculptures. Through language as an ingredient, David Douard redefines space as hybrid and collective by injecting anonymous, chaotic, deviant, ill and frustrating poems in it. As he recreates an infected environment where the real world used to be, the fantasy brought by new digital technologies expands.
David Douard graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2011. Since 2022, he teaches at the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions organized by international institutions such as UCCA Dune Art Museum, Qinhuangdao (2023); Serralves Museum, Porto (2022);
FRAC Île-de-France, Paris (2020); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2019); KURA c/o Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan (2018);
Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014 and 2018); Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris (2017, 2015); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig (2016); Fridericianum, Kassel (2015); Sculpture Center, New York (2014); Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2014); Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (2012). David Douard curated exhibitions at institutions such as the Fondation Pernod Ricard (2024) and Basement Roma (2024). He has also participated in various biennales: Belgrade Biennial (2021); Gwangju Biennial (2018); Taipei Biennial (2014);
Lyon Biennial (2013). In 2017-2018, he was a fellow-in-residence at the French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici. Additionally, he received the Fondazione Ettore Fico award in 2017 during the Artissima fair in Turin. His works are part of the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai; Collection Pinault, Paris;
Serralves Museum, Porto; Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris; CNAP, Paris; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; FRAC Île-de-France, Paris; FRAC Limousin, Limoges;
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims.
