Biography
Dieudonné Cartier was born in 1988. He graduated from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Angers (France) in 2012. He lives and works in Tours (France).
His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Château d’Oiron in 2018; the Florence Loewy (Paris) and Deborah Bowmann (Brussels) galleries in 2017; the MonChéri gallery (Brussels) in 2016 with Jean-Baptiste Carobolante; SLIDE - Gertrude Contemporary, (Melbourne) and the Laurent Mueller gallery (Paris) in 2015; the De LaCharge gallery (Brussels) in 2014.
Dieudonné Cartier has been focusing for the past ten years on the creative process. His work addresses production, reproduction and dissemination issues, whether through editions and multiples or through installations that involve printed documents and archives.
Dieudonné Cartier examines the status and value of the work of art through these various means of circulation, placing creation within the economic and labour logics that contribute to its existence.
The Office of Gravitational Documents, a project Dieudonné Cartier launched in 2014, is a fictional research office that serves as an archive of creative protocols in the history of art, particularly of conceptual artists. Dieudonné Cartier, following in their footsteps, belongs to this legacy.
As part of his ongoing exploration of the world of work, in 2018 the artist began to reflect on the relationship between scientific research and artistic creation. His exhibition Artificialia & Minaralis (archaeological laboratory), shown at Château d’Oiron, was based on the working methods and investigations of a team of archaeologists.