Christian Robert-Tissot

Born in 1960 in Geneva, he lives and works there. 

On canvas, in neon, as wall painting and as volumes, as is the case with his barriers installed in the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, it's invariably language and words, pass words, code words or hip words, which Christian Robert-Tissot puts to the test of form. Playing with colours, media, graphic forms, he thus composes something quite contrary to a work with a thesis or message, striving rather to introduce quantity-wise double meanings, shifted senses, voided and reversed. 

What does the dictum “Wherever I go, I am already” meant to you?

This title, full of wisdom, talks about the path that leads to the end, otherwise put: it is probably more important to watch where you put your feet than to know where you're going to put your arse.

A word about your artistic proposition?

Three galvanized barriers, in text form, installed in the urban space. See-through words from which—and in relation to their environment—a thought may be developed.

What does art enable you to achieve?

Whether guard tower or observatory, art is a railing that , among other things, keeps consumerist alienation at bay.