Artists

Mountaincutters

Press release

Opening on Thursday, November the 12th from 6 - 9 PM The singular practice of the French collective mountaincutters takes shape through site-specific sculptures, composed for the space in which they come to life. Combining found raw materials, rust, brass plates, ceramic, textile, glass and copper, their installations unfold like happy accidents, random compositions. The idea of incompleteness, and the very notion of the “finished”, is called into question: at what point is a work considered complete? The duo is driven by process and by the search for a dialogue between materiality and the human. Drawing on artisanal gestures and ancestral processes, mountaincutters transform natural and post-industrial materials, in perpetual pursuit of an ever-unstable balance. -- The duo mountaincutters (b. 1990, Marseille) graduated from the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Marseille-Méditerranée. Their work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions in Belgium, France and internationally. In 2021, their work was the subject of an exhibition at La Verrière – Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, curated by Guillaume Désanges. In 2023, a solo exhibition was dedicated to them at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In 2026, their work was presented in a solo show at Keijiban, Kanazawa, Japan.