Jean-Claude Jolet

UP. 10.11.2021

Born in 1958

Lives and works in Reunion Island

  • 3 Chemin de la Source 97421 Saint-Louis, La Réunion

Light bulb, Sculptures d’eau séries, 2014.
Sand, water, sunlight, lightbulb imprint. Video, 16 min 15 s.
© ADAGP 2022
Pression (Le piège), 2013.
Installation, plywood sculpture, animal skin mantling, soundtrack.
© ADAGP 2013
Stayin’ Alive, 2020.
Sculpture in glued-laminated wood, 150 x 120 x 100 cm.
© ADAGP 2020
Salle verte 2.0, 2019
cut and woven PVC sheets, length 2000 x 600 cm. Réunion Métis Festival, Saint-Paul, Réunion, 2019.
© ADAGP Paris

Jean-Claude Jolet develops his projects as an observer of the world and of its social constructs. While initially trained as a sculptor, his work ranges from photography to architectural installations and conjures up a form of human dramaturgy through the mise en abyme of cultural or political objects. While avoiding any direct collision, Jean-Claude Jolet’s works whisper to anyone who wants to listen a potential new way of the world, in perpetual construction, motion and folds. Built with a variety of manufactured materials, as well as raw natural elements, they are organised into simple and delicate “mental sculptures” put together with the precision of a skilled technician, the ingenuity of a handyman and the sensitivity of a poet.

Laetitia Espanol, 2020

Translated by Lucy Pons | Biographical notes translated with the support of the Centre national des arts plastiques - Cnap.

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