Benoît Maire’s generation of artists draws on metaphysical references while at the same time embracing form and objects. Pure thought is eschewed in favour of its physical accessories (books, images, culture). Knowledge is a raw material in its own right.

In this context, the artist’s ambitious project centres on a range of exploratory works in progress, examining how best to enact specific philosophical motifs as forms (Lacan, Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard feature regularly), which are themselves an opportunity for an enquiring, critical assessment of the resulting, fundamental schism between art and poetry.