Xavier Duffaut
RED PLANET Experience
Daddy Issues
Stranger Things at the Art Fair
FOURT
Faire TA(S)CHE
Colis Tristes
Délivrénoo Fitness Club
Frozen World Cup
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Proximinus
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Daddy Issues, 2025
Blown glass, glazed porcelain, cutomized juwel boxes, display case
120 x 60 x 105 cm
Initiated in 2023, Daddy Issues reimagines used condoms and their packaging by reproducing them through artisanal and ancestral techniques such as glassblowing and porcelain mould stamping. Used condoms are complex and ambivalent objects that embody a series of material and symbolic contradictions: they are intimate yet alien to our bodies, synthetic yet organic, erotic yet abject. In this piece, the fake wastes are presented as precious, delicate and refined jewels, displayed in a setting that parodies jewellery store merchandizing—thereby emphasizing the concept of desire and vanity.
Xavier Duffaut
RED PLANET Experience
Daddy Issues
Stranger Things at the Art Fair
FOURT
Faire TA(S)CHE
Colis Tristes
Délivrénoo Fitness Club
Frozen World Cup
Père-version
Subliminal Packagings
Proximinus
Get In, Loser
Black Friday
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Stranger Things at the Art Fair, 2023
Video 0’59”
I infiltrated the contemporary art fair ‘Art Brussels’ through a quirky self-portrait: a walking plush toy that represents myself. As the small character wanders through the fair, its solitude contrasts with the corporate and consumerist spectacle of the art event.
Xavier Duffaut
RED PLANET Experience
Daddy Issues
Stranger Things at the Art Fair
FOURT
Faire TA(S)CHE
Colis Tristes
Délivrénoo Fitness Club
Frozen World Cup
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Proximinus
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FOURT
Ballroom Gallery (Brussels)
2021
“Conceived as a soft-chateau, the exhibition is crowded with opulent expressions of hygiene, mass manufacturing and enchantment. Duffaut’s work activates the carefree qualities of market coercion. It shapes and sculpts wasted perfections up until a point where constellations of clean bold colors emerge. For his first solo exhibition, Duffaut brings into focus the elegantly banal he is intrigued by. The works intend to produce a collective atmosphere of non-difference, of non-heterotopia. They allow us to fall implicit, to fall into a trope, into a corporate business meeting, a collective therapy session for people with trust issues. FOURT asks serious questions about the nature of ‘realness’. Its impossibility and absolute possibility. Liveliness beyond the boundaries of realness. Forms catapult through the space creating new levels of dysphoric sensation and general confusion. A sanitary extravaganza, an arena of branded monstrosities. It wonders what might have happened in the factories or in the mechanical fur or in Julia's bathroom. This show has one mission. To do it well. And then, to head to the compost or the gutter.”
(Text by Lydia Mcglinchey)
FOURT, 2021
Beheaded Disneystore plush
30 x 22 x 12 cm
Délivrénoo Fitness, 2021
Customized home bike, customized delivery bag, jacket, helmet, loop video on iPad, pedestal
130 x 130 x 160 cm
The Reward, 2021
Screenprint on fabric, frame
100 x 150 cm
Portrait of Marc in the E.U., 2021
Welcoming sweets
Dimensions variables
Predator, 2021
Inkjet print mounted on Dibond, frame
60 x 120 x 5 cm
Magic Deals, 2021
UV-print on Dibond, lightbox
60 x 60 x 20 cm
Cleaning Legend, 2021
Performance
Xavier Duffaut
RED PLANET Experience
Daddy Issues
Stranger Things at the Art Fair
FOURT
Faire TA(S)CHE
Colis Tristes
Délivrénoo Fitness Club
Frozen World Cup
Père-version
Subliminal Packagings
Proximinus
Get In, Loser
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Faire TA(S)CHE, 2022
Hard-cover monography. Edition of 100
Under the guise of a ‘Basic Art’ book from mega-publisher TASCHEN, this autofiction is a curation of my art practice, starting from my childhood until 2030. It explores ambiguities and ambivalences such as death drive and sex drive ; imposture and social success ; sacred and profane.
Xavier Duffaut
RED PLANET Experience
Daddy Issues
Stranger Things at the Art Fair
FOURT
Faire TA(S)CHE
Colis Tristes
Délivrénoo Fitness Club
Frozen World Cup
Père-version
Subliminal Packagings
Proximinus
Get In, Loser
Black Friday
Info
Frozen World Cup
Père-version
Subliminal Packagings
Proximinus
Get In, Loser
Black Friday
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Colis Tristes (Déprime), 2021
Gouache, stickers and acrylic on cardboards
Dimensions variables