Mécaniques Discursives
Mécaniques Discursives
Installation 2011 - 2021
Mécaniques Discursives is a creative experiment initiated in 2011 that draws on intense encounters, both human and artistic. For the best part of a decade, it brought together Fred Penelle and Yannick Jacquet, two artists whose creative practices were very different, yet highly complementary.
Their joint project involved creating an unsettling, resolutely contemporary visual realm, transcending ages and fashions. They developed a sophisticated, uncompromising vocabulary at the juncture between engraving and contemporary digital art. The works were mostly created in situ, naturally adapting to the sites, walls, and spaces that hosted them, and turning technical constraints into a creative force. Having shown their work at over seventy exhibitions, Fred Penelle and Yannick Jacquet earned a solid international reputation and considerable mastery of their art.
Over the past decade, the project has been seen by a very wide audience in Europe and round the world, from Canada, Russia, and China, to Japan, Taiwan, Israel, and Egypt, in contexts as varied as contemporary art museums such as the Macro in Rome and the Bozar in Brussels, the Milan and Shenzen design weeks, digital art biennials including Némo in Paris and STRP in Eindhoven, and major public festivals such as Signal in Prague, Constellations in Metz and Llum in Barcelona. It proved wildly popular not just with critics, but also with the wider public, particularly children. Some works were acquired by private collectors and by the PASS Museum in Mons.
