Jean-Emmanuel Exbrayat

Jean-Emmanuel Exbrayat was born in 1967 in France. He studdied at Arts schools in Valenciennes and Tourcoing in north of France. Subsequently, he specializes in the development of communication space and then engages in the decorating trades.
For many years, he worked as a decorator for companies, communities and today he works mainly for film and television.
Never, however, has he ceased to explore and develop his personal artistic approach. This is how visual and conceptual reseach will succeed, through various mediums.
For Jean-Emmanuel Exbrayat, art is a way of reflecting. His works are subjects of open conversations about the world as it is also as it might be.

"Perilous exercice if any, only art: but it is like a permanent necessity to be. Without failling into the solipsistic experience, it is to others possible insights into the state of the world. A utopia considered as potentially achievable"

N. Cogez-Poisson

PAINTING WITH THE LACK OF A THING

How do we relate to the world?
Our bonds are made of diverse injunctions and illusions. Hence we tap the nature of who we are and we keep the rest at bay, with greater or lesser success.
These variable distances, these cracks between fragments of reality ...

1997, L'Homme à La Tête De Feu
Dehors-Dedans-Frontières, Hellemmes ( Nord ) France

2004, Les Certitudes Préventives
CEMEA, Lille ( Nord ), France

2012, Les Bons Sentiments
La confection idéale, Roubaix ( Nord ) France

2013, Regarde Comme Je Deviens

Studio Bartowski, Croix ( Nord ), France

2015, La Plupart Du Temps, Il Ne Se Passe Rien
Médiathèque M. Yourcenar, Faches-Thumesnil ( Nord ) France