Vivien Roubaud

Samare stationnaire (Stationary samara)
Samare stationnaire
Samare stationnaire
Samare stationnaire (Stationary samara)

The place

Le Pavillon

Language

All

Hours and dates

  • From 10am to 6pm daily

Born in 1986, Vivien Roubaud lives and works in Brussels.

He graduated from the Villa d’Arson art school in 2011 and was awarded the Prix Emerige Revelations Prize in 2014. That same year, he exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo as part of the Modules programme – Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent. Until 2015, he is artist in residence at La Station in Nice. In 2016, he moved to Brussels and helped to create an artist-run studio space.

Vivien Roubaud is represented by the In Situ-Fabienne Leclerc gallery in Paris.

Vivien Roubaud

Samare stationnaire (Stationary samara)

As part of the Capture #2 exhibition to be held at Le Pavillon from 23 September 2023 to 14 January 2024

In botany, a samara is a dried fruit with a wing-shaped membrane.

With Samare stationnaire, the idea is to build bases capable of producing a vertical laminar airflow that allows a samare to levitate on itself. This flow is accompanied by an all-round “wall of air” to keep the rotating samara suspended above its base, without it ever being able to break its fall, return to a stable state, or become immobilised.

Samare stationnaire