Samir Mougas

Born in 1980, he lives and works in Paris, France. Samir Mougas’ work explores a field of aesthetic experimentation that oscillates between the use of invented forms and the use of borrowed forms. By appropriating a broad formal vocabulary that refers as much to biodiversity as to contemporary sculpture or design, the works he creates are considered in a paradox: resisting the seduction they provide in order to open up a wide range of interpretation possibilities. Samir Mougas uses paint, ceramics, lacquered cast aluminium and even automotive varnish as objects of formal experimentation and as pretexts for learning how to produce forms by hand. His practice consists of working with forms and references that draw on contemporary advertising and marketing as much as on mass cultural phenomena.
 
His work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions at the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes (2023), at the Galerie Eric Mouchet (2020 and 2017), at the centre d’art contemporain La Chapelle des Calvairiennes (2018), at the centre d’art contemporain les Bains-douches (2013), at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2011) and at 40mcube (2009); and collectively at the Frac Normandie Caen (2021), at the Fondation Villa Datris (2020), at the FRAC Bretagne (Rennes, 2020), at the Consello da Cultura Galega (Portugal, 2019), La Criée (Rennes, 2018), at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (Brussels, 2018), Printemps de Septembe (2018), Glassbox (2017), ZQM, Berlin (2017), Palais de Tokyo (2016), Comfort Moderne (Poitiers, 2016) and the Biennale Internationale de Design de Saint-Etienne (2015).
 
MORE INFORMATION :
 
// Biography
// Read the monograph Lazer blazer bizarre, Samir Mougas, GEM, 2020
// Samir Mougas on Reseau-dda.org
 
EXHIBITIONS :
 
// .TECHNO (04/01-05/27/2017)
// Imago Super Praxis (09/05-10/04/2020)
// Human Experience: Food Systems (03/23-05/11/2024 | Paris)