JXD1S

At the age of 20, JXD1S received a year of so-called traditional training from curator Andréric Berthonneau of the NoMuseuM gallery, ContemporaryArtGallery. Through his art master he learns the codes of contemporary art and curating. 

Several events were created during this year of learning: BacktoBlack, Le Bal, and the sulphurous exhibition Holocost Of Love, " Seul l'amour ne compte pas ses morts ". Production soon became an obvious choice for J. Mothes, in particular through the writing of the work "The Culture of the Individual", a sculpture implementing the writings encoded in phases and highlighted in a contemplative way. As a kind of memorial to what the artist could have been without the excesses of the modified states of consciousness of the past. 

With the ambition of developing his works around digital technology, JXD1S creates the Banan'Art Spit concept in partnership with the students of Esmi and LIMA who perform at Sherlock Holmes and Iboat on software dedicated to digital painting. 

The After Network exhibition that followed was the beginning of a reflection on digital art, but above all it attempted to answer a question: "How to materialize immaterial works? The curatorship of the exhibition highlighted the post-digital era, the idea that influencers and actors of the digital world have a place in artistic production, but above all how to recognise these works as part of a category in their own right. 

The video installation called "Lucarne" exhibited at the Iboat imprisons a screen that pushes the viewer into an intimacy that cuts him off from any spatial reference, he is in a way de-materialised. 

Some time after a collaboration with the Galerie NoMuseuM, ContemporaryArtGallery, the collective After.Plastics.Organisation intervened on a screen projected from the Boat, with the simple instruction "Jump To The Rivers...". The video installation, with its hypnotic side, provokes the participants but above all alerts them to the disappearance of young people in the Garonne. 

ReDesign Boxon called on After.Plastics.Organisation to recycle the Label's old vinyl records and turn them into a work of art. JXD1S & A.Berthonneau decided to put forward the mortuary and sacrificial side of vinyl as a material. Hence the logical choice to take a British-made Newton vase, to reproduce it in black plastic, and to place the vinyls in it in the manner of mortuary ashes in a sort of homage: the "Funeral Urn" of an era, of a period of history. 

JXD1S also had the opportunity to establish itself in the musical domain at the "Baraka", an alternative and ephemeral creation space in Bordeaux, during several events gathering the members of Ableton User. 

Digital being one of the highlights of the artist's work, a UI/UX design school was an obvious way to perfect his technical skills in the medium. His bias, to see the web as a medium apart, but which has the right to exist. This will to materialize the unreal is an obsession for the artist, even if the screen, the video, the web are another interesting bias to develop. Traditional paintings have been added to the production, but with the aim of being digitised, modified with a composition intrinsically different from the original.

The meeting with Eik Shi, a former graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, resulted in the creation of the Hansel Draw exhibition at the BX Laboratory. For us the artistic process, complex in itself, is defined by our vision of chance. Once the main work is defined (installation of a complete deck of cards), the other works are themselves derived from this notion of chance, but segmented by drawings (cartomancy). The medium of the card game being borrowed from a notion of chance by default, the creation of the additional works allows a second rereading of the work itself. We made some cards travel around the world through a participative work (departure points: airport), once again calling upon the notion of chance. 

The exhibition was set up in a performative way: Draw, blindfolded and with no notion of the exhibition's progress, came to randomly impulse the hanging of the works, offering the public a discovery at the rhythm of what could be an artistic and sound manifestation of chance. 

Writing has never left JXD1S, an artist's book of poetry is currently being reread, the choice of edition is to be defined, to be meditated upon for an artistic coherence (Web, digital, print.

Today, the current work of reflection is focused on the following question: which medium can see its productions evolve? In order to answer this question, experimentation is necessary... Research is therefore essential.