Born 1981, Pertuis, France
Lives and works in Marseille, France
Simon Fravega works as artist and performer. He takes seriously the virtues of disguisement and anecdote. In action, he copies the ‘other’ (athletes, rockers, western characters and hula hoop dancers), and studies the gestures that define and replay them by decontextualizing them. The nature of these gestures staggers them: they are no longer reflexes but human constructions, even at the hands of the artist’s choreography. Combining this deferred dubbing activity to a flow of micro-narratives, Simon Fravega weaves a reflection on the gap between facts and representations. And under the guise of humour and the absurd, it identifies something essential in the great game of the world.