France
lives and works in paris
Raphaël Fabre was born in Paris in 1989 where he lives and works. After a start in Cinema studies he joins the ENSBA, Paris School of Fine Arts.
With his appeal to the reconstruction of environments, to the exploration of the universe of the video game and to the manipulation of the digital images, Raphael Fabre develops a fascinating reflection by studying these processes which end in the acceptance and in the validation of the narrative. When he produces immersive installations in the way we reconstitute set decoration, fictional or existing, he invites his spectator to dive into the narrative and he blurs the fictional principle by giving a disturbing embodiment, testing thereby the limits of a distinction between the virtual and the real. Beyond theatrical reconstructions, some of his works such as «CNI», a famous identity photography which made him known of the public in 2017, explore on the contrary the way this gap between the reality and the fiction comes to fit in everyday life and to introduce unexpected gaps. The digital portrait in 3D corresponding to the requirements of the prefecture was produced with a loyalty such as no procedure of validation was able to prevent the official publication of the document, defining in fine the identity of an individual reconstituted artificially, at least its image. This raises numerous questions on the place occupied nowadays by the code in this electronic meshing which always tightens more, transforming the life and the image into artificial data in essence. With a certain form of humor, he is indirectly interested in the way the artist, following the example of the forger, can move forward, masked, as long as he excels in what he is doing.
The persistent opposition between the reality and the virtuality takes one any other dimension in its work. Is it inevitably necessary to bring into conflict them? The work of Raphael Fabre seems to allow to doubt it.