Recent acquisition
Paul Heintz
Paul Heintz is born in 1989 in Saint-Avold (France), a Fine Arts graduate at Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Arts Décoratifs de Paris and Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains. His work goes through object, sound, film and installation has been presented at contemporary art event and film festival such as FID Marseille, IFFR Rotterdam, Visions du Réel, Paris Nuit Blanche. In 2019, he won the contemporary art price Révélation Emerige and Artist book of the year Adagp 2021. (…) Paul Heintz’s field of action is a bizarre set of cases where what is real is largely imbued with fiction, and where social normativity also makes its weight entirely felt. There is an inherent toxicity to imagination and fiction when they combine their approval of the social norm, as is the case with storytelling for example. From there, Paul Heintz enters the logic of fiction, takes it futher and lets through redeeming current. (…) Emmanuelle Pireyre
2023
Collection Frac Bourgogne
Nafura - or fountain in Arabic - is the title of Paul
Heintz's latest film, presented as part of his eponymous
exhibition at gb agency. It's a wandering, nocturnal
fiction about three young women in the city of Jeddah,
dominated by the largest artificial geyser in the world,
the "water jet of King Fadh". In this fable-roadmovie,
they seek out the source of the water, turning the
spectacular and fascinating image of its gush into a
demonstration of power and control.