Stéphane Calais

Born in 1967 in Arras (France), he lives in Paris.

If according to Stéphane Calais drawing is at the heart of everything "of the artwork, the image, the organisation of the world and his own work" he nevertheless makes use of any means "including painting, sculpture, and installation" in the service of his art, with the exception of video. He stands alone in the artistic landscape as an atypical, humorous dabbler, appearing most where one least expects him. He sees the world as a "bank", a melee of signs and objects of unlimited availability for use and abuse. Faced with this formal and aesthetic maelström, aiming to escape all rigid classification, he considers his work "like an army on the march".

Invited to exhibit in the spaces of the Fondation Caisse d'Epargne / Espace Ecureuil place du Capitole, Calais has prepared an original version of  And the Moon is a Cheese, a maze of "cheese slices" of polystyrene dotted with black moons in which the visitor, playing the role of a mouse, is invited to wander and to lose herself, the better to feel afterwards a sense of exit.