Floryan Varennes: Nexus Protocol
Healing protocol conducted as part of the exhibition “Assemblages. Taking Care of Things.”
For one week, artist Floryan Varennes will devote himself to the patient task of restoring his work L’Assemblée, in a gesture of care and reactivation carried out before the eyes of the public.
Installed at the heart of the exhibition Assemblages. Taking Care of Things, artist Floryan Varennes is undertaking a public restoration of his work, acquired by Les Abattoirs in 2021.
Riveting, cleaning, adjusting: these maintenance tasks reveal the materiality of the piece, L'Assemblée, as much as they prolong it. The visual artist transforms the usually invisible act of care into an open intervention, where repair becomes a moment shared with visitors.
In this context, the work is not only preserved and exhibited: it is reactivated, reinforced, and regenerated, affirming that the memory of forms also depends on the attention paid to their alteration.
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For more than 10 years, Floryan Varennes has been developing a body of work in sculpture, installation, and simulation that reconfigures the structures of preservation and regulation that run through our bodies. Between archives and anticipations, his research examines the processes of interdependence, predation, and repair that shape our relationship to life, technology, and history.
Through these combinations, Floryan Varennes, with his referential approach, heals a present in crisis, while sketching out an alternative temporality made up of attentions, impacts, and premonitions.
Born in 1988 in La Rochelle, Floryan Varennes lives and works between Nantes and Paris. He holds a DNSEP from ESAD TPM (2014) and a Master's degree in Medieval History from Paris-Nanterre University (2020). He has exhibited internationally (NADA New York, Hongti Art Center in South Korea, Galerie du Monde in Hong Kong, Galerie Polansky in Prague) as well as in France (Musée du Louvre-Lens, MAGCP, Salon de Montrouge). He has been welcomed in residence by Villa Busan – Institut Français (KR), Est-Nord-Est (CA), the Synagogue de Delme (FR), and La Ferme-Asile (CH). Since 2020, his work has been included in the national collections of FRAC Occitanie, Alsace, and Poitou-Charentes, as well as those of the Goeun Museum in Busan and the Sunpride Foundation in Hong Kong.
