Helium Print

Nefrit graduated from the ESADMM , Marseille in 2015. He is currently resident artist at the Ancien Couvent Levat in Marseille, a project initiated by the Juxtapoz Association. For his residency, Nefrit is developing a practice that spans mural painting and studio based work. Through a visual language that is structured, optimistic and gladly grotesque, Nefrit’s works are constructed through a process of layering. Going beyond painting and sculpture, the artist creates artworks that exist outside of the frame. Textures, motifs, gestures and fragments intermingle and bind, digging deep into the strata of his ongoing technical concern. Between children's games and mythology, he builds piece by piece a corrupt universe. One that exists between a distant past and the present, realised in the form of works that are both anachronistic artifacts and innovations that are impossible to decipher.