Adam Bilardi
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2023
1995
France
Exo Exo
"Titles are pretty much everything to me. Because I think they often say more than the image. They are like its lyrics? They guide us."
"We’re looking for ourselves in the mirror. I believe that deep down we experience relationships to better know ourselves."
"There is one of the titles that’s from a song by Booba ‘Scarface’. I like the idea that music is a privileged emotional space. Booba for example talks about love in this song, although I’m sure he wouldn’t in everyday life."
"What about dogs ? The dogs are a metaphore. It’s an animal. He too is caught up in relationships but he’s not sexual. He is more aggressive."
Adam Bilardi (born 1995 in Paris, France) lives and works in Paris. He graduated in from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Paris-Cergy (2021).
In his paintings Adam Bilardi questions the concepts of love, loss and lack through ambiguous representations of embrace and eroticism. His work moves back and forth between tenderness and violence. Physical contact is omnipresent in his paintings, like a relational struggle or a fight with oneself. His paintings are like maps of the world with its flat areas of color, its lands, its seas, and its deserts.
His work has been exhibited in solo show at Exo Exo, Paris ; Revolver, Buenos Aires and in group shows at Imatge Art Center, Orthez ; Peres Projects, Milan ; MOCO, Montpellier.