Armand Jalut

Born in 1976, lives and works in Paris.

Armand Jalut’s painting conjures up an iconography that cultivates ambiguity and paradoxes. He extracts certain fragments from his collections of images, subjects them to movements, combinatorial games, conceiving an ambivalent pictorial device. Becoming artifacts, these hyper-figured objects are enriched with a narrative potential with fantastic and erotic reminiscences. His work reflects this way of observing the harmless, the obsolete, manipulating and recontextualizing the subject through the deforming prism of painting, elaborating a fantasized projection of the accessory

Armand Jalut has shown at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Centre d’art contemporain La Halle des bouchers (Vienne), Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (Russia), Musée de l’Abbaye de Sainte Croix (Les Sables d’Olonne), Les Abattoirs - Frac Midi-Pyrénées (Toulouse), Le Creux de l’Enfer (Thiers), Galerie Édouard Manet (Gennevilliers), CNEAI (Paris).

His work is held in the collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Fondation d’entreprise Colas (Paris), Musée de l’Abbaye de Sainte Croix (Les Sables d’Olonne), Fonds Municipal d’art Contemporain de Paris.

Armand Jalut took part in the Paris//Los Angeles F.L.A.R.E. residency program. He teaches at the École supérieure d’art de Clermont Métropole.