Michel François — installation view 1

Artist

Michel François

1956, Belgian

Biography

Michel François portrait

François’s interest lies in exploring a variety of media including installation, video, sculpture and photography, often combined and linked to create a larger idea. Through these various techniques and materials, François comments on the relationships and contradictions that we face in our public and private lives. Some are more formal such as convex versus concave forms, the connection between the external and the internal, light versus dark. Others focus on political “truths” versus deception and/or manipulation. Central to the artist’s work is the reconsideration of simple known images, objects or banal iconography.

Selected works

Scribble

2025

Aluminum, plaster, ink

24 3/8 x 57 1/8 x 26 in · 62 x 145 x 66 cm

Perfect Couple

2019-2024

Bottles and candles

27 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 7 7/8 in · 70 x 40 x 20 cm

Golden Section

2009

transparent one-way mirror foil, wrinkled

dimensions variable

Scribble

2025

Aluminium, plaster and ink

16 7/8 x 26 3/8 x 18 1/8 in · 43 x 67 x 46 cm

Rien dans les poches

1996-2024

Plaster, fabric

3,5 m ·

Spring Steel Drawing

2020-2024

Steel

Variable dimensions

Retenue d’eau

1998-2024

Plastic, water, nylon, aluminium

47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in · 120 x 120 cm ·

Rouge

2024

white plaster

10 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in · 26 x 26 x 26 cm ·

Untitled - duo sculpture , photo

2024

Digital printing and white plaster

33 1/2 x 23 5/8 in · 85 x 60 cm · - · 85 x 60 cm ·

Untitled - duo sculpture, photo

2024

Digital print and jesmonite

68 x 17 x 12 cm · - · 85 x 60 cm ·

Untitled - duo sculpture , photo

2024

Digital print and white plaster

36 x 35 x 4 cm · - · 36 x 35 x 4 cm ·

Untitled- duo sculpture , photo

2024

Digital print and white plaster

50 x 37 x 20 · - · 85 x 58 cm ·

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Exhibitions

Ann Veronica Janssens & Michel François

Ann Veronica Janssens & Michel François

02/02/2026 - 18/04/2026

Looking Through the Other Eye - Left is Right and Right is Left: Drawings by Sculptors

Looking Through the Other Eye - Left is Right and Right is Left: Drawings by Sculptors

03/07/2025 - 07/09/2025

Michel François

Michel François

19/09/2024-07/11/2024

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