WIP collective – Jérôme Boulanger & Thibaut Drouillon

WIP collective is a pair of artists made up of Jérôme Boulanger and Thibaut Drouillon. Using digital technologies to make visual choices, the collective analyses reality as fiction, questioning the status of vectors for constructing collective identity.

Together, they question the impact of the injunctive nature of language and cartographic representation on their relationship with the territory. In so doing, they are attempting to deconstruct the representations and symbols of collective identity and offer them a new perspective.

Using digital technologies to make visual choices, the collective analyses reality as fiction, questioning the status of vectors for constructing collective identity. Digital programming allows them to move away from a total control over the finality of the forms they propose. The pair use algorithms and code to leave the creative process open to chance. In this sense, the images, devices and installations they create highlight a generative and physical process that is constantly evolving.

Their work tries not to be fixed in a stable, permanent form. It is often the consequence of a change of state.