PROLIFERATION

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The authors

We sign as two

The movement's unit is not the artist but the duo — and the two voices stay different.

A pebble beach near Marseille, an overcast winter morning. Nothing has been placed there.
A generated setting, awaiting a work. No work is depicted here.
O

Olivier RAVEAU

born 1983 in Paris

Born in Paris in 1983, raised in four African countries, back in France in 1994. The first French place he remembers is a retail-park warehouse full of shoes arranged by size. His work has since consisted in giving a history back to objects that had nothing left but a price.

V

Vanessa RAVEAU

born in Dakar

This half belongs to her, and she will write it herself. The movement says one signs as two and that disagreement is a material: it would sit badly telling one of its two authors' story in her place.

Landmarks

One same rupture, at two depths

  1. 1983 O Born in Paris.
  2. 1983-1994 O Childhood in Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Niger.
  3. — V Born in Dakar.
  4. 1994 O Back to France, Paris suburbs. The first French place he remembers is a retail-park warehouse full of shoes arranged by size.
  5. 1994 V Arrival in France, in a country she had never lived in. Same plane, not the same journey.
  6. 2003-2024 O Engineering school, then twenty years founding companies.
  7. 2026 O + V Proliferationism is founded, in Marseille.

For one, 1994 was a return. For the other, an arrival in a country she had never lived in. They do not share the same memory of the same day, and nobody will settle which is right — that is where the idea comes from, that a disagreement can be a material.