The works of Pia Rondé & Fabien Saleil come to life, along a chain of successive creations, that drift from one to the other, through a renewed articulation between various media and materials. Starting out from a production ritual in a darkroom, their researches tend towards a spatialization of drawn or photographic images, while exploiting their plasticity. Their installations need to be approached both physically and mentally; they can be crossed through like narratives, bringing together the notions of memory, sacrifice or magic.
Pia Rondé was born in 1986 à Grasse, Fabien Saleil was born in 1983 à Ségur; they live and work in Noisy-le-Sec. Among their most recent exhibitions: “Cité Fantôme” (Drawing Lab, Paris, 2017), “La Campagne est Noire de soleil” (Galerie Escougnou-Cetraro Paris, 2016) or else “Plongement” (Espace Short, Nantes, 2015).
They have also taken part in such group shows as “Intériorités” (Labanque, Béthune, 2017, invited by Léa Bismuth), “Face à l’aura” (Centre d’art Image/ Imatge, Hortez, 2017) as well as Jeune Création in 2013 – among others. Their artist’s book Ruines du Soleil was acquired by the Bibliothèque Kandinsky (Centre Pompidou), the Frac Île-de-France and the Bibliothèque de L’Esadhar. Pia Rondé & Fabien Saleil are represented by the Galerie Escougnou-Cetraro (Paris).