VICTORIEN BIET

Victorien Biet

Political Domination

Photo, 57*77cm I grew up alone, far from the world, far from life. Cloistered behind the walls erected around me by my parents, I’ve discovered my homosexuality at a very young age, an age where you’re not supposed to think about sexuality. I’ve discovered my attraction for boys in the same way I’ve discovered my artistic sensibility : through the window of internet. So, sublimation became my obsession. My art comes from my history, from my memories and my sufferings. I keep indelible traces of it as well in my mind as in my soul and, for me, they are as much part of my art than everything else. Is « queer » the best qualifier to define myself ? I don’t think so. My works are less « queer art » than « art of reality ». This kind of art is less an aesthetic approach than a political or philosophical approach. It’s also a very narcissistic art, an art who scream « look at me, I exist ! », a cry of pain, a weapon for desperate people like me who only have their camera to be heard and to express their buried feelings. So it is also the « art of the unspeakable ».