Originating from the Luxembourgish scene and active on the European scene, the artist duo Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil has been developing a body of work since 2008 that is distinguished by the richness of its visual vocabulary and its socially conscious scrutiny of the contemporary world. Working as a twosome, Feipel & Bechameil produce installations where there is a mix of illusion, imagination, instability and illogicality within gridded and controlled places in the contemporary world. As sculptors but also amateur researchers and engineers, informed by a great sensibility with regard to the theatricality of the world and its various forms of beauty, they create works within a socio-historical, aesthetic, political and technical approach. In combining their many areas of know-how in various fields - drawing, sculpture, engineering, directing and presentation, and sets -, they are producing an oeuvre that is as formally accomplished as it is powerfully engaged. 

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As artists, they have no certainties about ideal social and cultural models, but they are forever questioning human life by way of themes such as the social and collective setting, life styles, the forms of architecture people occupy and the objects which accompany us in our daily round, the landscape that is presented to us, and the areas of freedom we are given, as well as the future being traced out for us. As robotics hackers Feipel & Bechameil propose a re-appropriation of the realm of technology in a sensitive way, using an eminently political gesture: taking possession of the expertise and know-how of industrial robotics, to apply them to the creation of artworks which describe our world in a different way. In the most recent works places the nature and the different forms of the living at the center of their reflection. It is not anymore, the question of how modernity has changed our relation to world, but how modernity has upset the world and caused the endangerment of our environment and the different forms of living. The artists consciously wish to alter our view on the simplest forms of living around us and glorify the living in its various forms. 

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For an overview of the available works click HERE

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Exhibition: Nighthunters

Exhibition: Contemporary Ceramics Collective

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