In a multidisciplinary practice encompassing performance, video, music, installation, and painting, Paul Garcin creates storytelling works that draw on autobiography and autofiction. He appropriates and subverts the operating modes established in and by American pop culture, whose marketing techniques and imagery have influenced him since childhood. Reflecting on the construction of the self through fascination and memory, his pieces are conceived as narrative episodes in which his experiences confront reflections on love, queerness, grief, doubt, solitude, and the complexity of human relationships.
He also djs under the name Joyful Aries and hosts a radio show, Main Character Energy, on Tikka since September 2024, which he writes, produces, and presents.
His work has been presented at venues such as the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris, TU-Nantes, Point Éphémère, Villa Savoye in Poissy, and La Graineterie, the art center in Houilles.
Performances
2024
Forever Mentone, Jerk Off festival, Point Ephémère, Paris (75)
Forever Mentone, Fauves festival, TU-Nantes (44)
The Phase de Doute Performance, Nuit Blanche at Villa Savoye, Poissy (78)
I heard it all before + Forever Mentone (excerpt), evening with Léa Puissant, PAN, Île Saint-Denis (93)
I heard it all before, exhibition Am I A Nepo Baby?, Rue des Quatre Fils, Paris (75)
2023
Forever Mentone, end of residency, TU-Nantes, France
Forever Mentone, CRASH TEST, Point Ephémère, Paris
2022
Le pouvoir de l’amour, de la fascination et de Céline Dion, Freed From Desire #3 exhibition, Bletterans, France
2021
An American Teenage Dream, finishing of Go Far, Go Hard, Glassbox, Paris, France
An American Teenage Dream, finishing of «5 à 7», Latelier Gallery, Sète, France
Les Garçons de la Colline (with Jimmy Beauquesne et Nelson Bourrec-Carter), Art Center of Malakoff, France
2019
Dancing On My Own #3 (Premium Quality), opening of Felicità19, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
La Rencontre Pt. II (Feat. Beyoncé), Opening of Terrain Neutre Theatre’s season, Nantes, France
La Rencontre Pt. II (Feat. Beyoncé), Festival Splash, Visual Arts / Living Arts, Théâtre Universitaire, Nantes, France
Tape8 Live, for the opening of Liquid Sunshine, Open School Gallery, Nantes, France
2018
Dancing On My Own #2 (Nap Queen), Pride’n’Art festival opening, POL’n, Nantes, France
Tape8 Live (with Tape8), Lost Horse Saloon, Marfa, Texas, USA
2017
Clipologie, Festival BAM! (with Meg Boury, Opale Mirman), Théâtre Universitaire, Nantes, France*
Saumon Lamour présente! (with Meg Boury, Opale Mirman and Jérôme Bernard), show presented for the Turbulence festival, Théâtre Universitaire, Nantes, France
2016
Dancing On My Own #1 (Good night), All Tomorrow’s Parties, Félix Thomas, Nantes, France
Conference about planes, Festival Je fais ce que je fais #5, ENSA Bourges, France
Conference about planes, Soirée Performances en Acte #1, Dulcie Galerie, Nantes, France
Collective Exhibitions
2024
Mostra Artistica, Porta Soprana, Cairo Montenotte (LIGURIA, Italia)
Am I a Nepo Baby ?, Rue des Quatre Fils, Paris, France (curator : Théo Diers)
La chambre des Echos (with KimPetrasPaintings), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2023
Video FLASH screening evening, Point Ephémère, Paris
2022
Want More and More.., by Freed From Desire collective, 59 Rivoli, Paris (75)
2021
GO FAR, GO HARD, (with KimPetrasPaintings), Glassbox, France
«Mobilisé.e.s» restitution of residency, Maison des Arts of Malakoff, France
2020
13th Biennale of young creation, La Graineterie, Houilles, France (Curators : Alexandra Servel & Maud Cosson)
2019
Felicità 2019, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Go West, Open School Gallery, Nantes, France (Curator : Clémence Agnez)
2018
Liquid Sunshine, Open School Gallery, Nantes, France
2014
HORS SITU IV, Chapelle du Quartier Haut, Sète, France
Residencies
2025
Synagogue of Delme, Delme, France
SOMA, Marseille, France
2024
Nouveau Grand Tour program, Institut Français : Il Gattopardo, Cairo Montenotte, Italia (Liguria)
2023
TU-Nantes, Nantes, France
Point Éphémère, Paris
Maison Artagon, Vitry-Aux-Loges, France
2022
Point Ephémère, Paris
2021
Freed From Desire #3, Bletterans, France
L’Estive, Glassbox (with KimPetrasPaintings), Paris, France
Mobilisé.e.s (invited by Jimmy Beauquesne), Maison des Arts of Malakoff, France
2018
Fieldwork, Marfa, Texas, USA
2017
TU-Nantes, Nantes, France
2014
Chapelle du Quartier Haut, Sète, France
Pedagogy
2024
Workshop «The Visual Album», Palais de Tokyo, Paris – with KimPetrasPaintings
2022
Workshop «Fan2», students from first to fifth years, Clermont-Ferrand school of Fine Arts, France – with KimPetrasPaintings
2016
Workshop in an ITEP (Therapeutic, educative and pedagogical institute ) with Lou Chenivesse, Nantes, France
Publications
2021
FIELDWORK MARFA, TEXAS USA, 11-20, Jannink Editions
2020
Text of Florian Gaité, catalog of the 13th Biennale of young creation
2019
Interview with Anaïd Demir, catalog of Felicità 19, Beaux-Arts de Paris Edition
Graduation
2023
SHIFT program, AMAC Agency, accompagnonship for young artist in the Ile-De-France area
2019
Bachelor with Honours of the jury, beaux-arts de Nantes, France
2017
Master with Honours of the jury, beaux-arts de Nantes, France
2013
Preparatory art school of Sète, France