Biography
Dominique Blais
Born in 1974,
Lives and works in Paris, France.
For several years, Dominique Blais has been devoted to creating connections between the visual and sound elements of our environment. Working at the limit of what is perceptible, he explores the tenuous link between the visible and the invisible in installations which examine the connection with a place and with memory. Through subtle transpositions, Blais upsets our expectations and baffles our senses, opening them up to new perceptive possibilities.
Biography
Dominique Blais lives and works in Paris, France. He received his BFA from the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Nantes, Master of Media & Multimedia from the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers (Paris) and MA Fine Art degree course from Ecole Superieure des Beaux-arts de Marseille. After completing his studies,Dominique Blais worked as a program planner in electronic / experimental music and curator for artist-run-gallery Glassbox (Paris).
The artist has participated in a number of solo exhibitions, including Fade Out, Xippas gallery, Paris (2013); Les Grands Verres, Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine (2013); 35/37, Maison du Peuple, Clichy (2013); D'une seconde majeure ou mineure, (w/ Julie Bena) La BF15, Lyon (2012); L'Ellipse, ESBA TALM, Le Mans (2012); Solaris, Le transpalette, Bourges (2011); Aposiopesis, Le Parvis, Tarbes (2010); En aparté, FDC Satellite, Brussel (2010); Inhale – Exhale, (w/ François Lancien-Guilberteau) CAC Passages, Troyes (2010); L'Ellipse, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2010); Inside the Circles, Tripode, Rezé (2009); Décélération, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers (2009); Module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2009) and Xippas gallery, Paris (2009).
Blais’s installations have been the subject of numerous major group exhibitions, including
Between Time and History, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (2013);
Mepic, Esam, Caen (2013); Paris at your Home, Machine Project, LA (2013); L'apparition des images, Fondation Ricard, Paris (2013); Art by Telephone... Recalled, Different venues in the world (2012); La fabrique sonore, Domaine Pommery, Reims (2011-12); Geo Sound Map, Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire (2011); Echoes, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2011); Plutôt que rien, Maison Populaire, Montreuil (2011); Nuit Blanche, Paris (2010); Radical Postures,FDC Satellite, Brussel (2010); Double Bind, Villa Arson, Nice (2010); Diagonales, In Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand (2010); No(t)Music, Fort du Bruissin, Francheville (2009-10);23'17, Mains d'Œuvres, Saint-Ouen (2009); Sound by artists, Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris (2009); Invasion of Sound, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2009).
His work is represented in many collections, as well as private and public collections. Dominique Blais is represented by Xippas Gallery in Paris.
