Born in 1984 in Montbrison (France), lives and works in Lyon (France) 

After completing scientific studies in ecology, Jean-Baptiste Perret worked for several years in environmental protection. Graduating in 2018 from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France, he pursued his interest in the rural environment through a cinematographic practice composed of films and video installations. His practice is concerned with the question of care, vulnerability, and self-reliance. His approach is based on documentary inquiry and uses methods from anthropology that question the criteria of objectivity. Distancing himself from official narratives, he focuses on individuals and their own visions of the world. Jean-Baptiste Perret films people he meets in everyday situations; he is interested in the shape of their daily lives, their environments, habits, and skills. Through various degrees of staging that willingly allow room for improvisation, subjective narratives and fictional processes intertwine.

Perret’s work has notably been presented at the Institut d’art contemporain (Villeurbanne) as part of the 15th Lyon Biennale, the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (Lyon), the Fondation Ricard (Paris), the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris), the Centre d’art contemporain Le Creux de l’Enfer (Thiers), the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (Paris), Art Basel Paris (Salle Principale booth), the 66th Salon de Montrouge (Montrouge), FIDMarseille (Marseille), the Hors-Pistes Festival at the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the États généraux du documentaire (Lussas).