Thierry Verbeke(1970-FR)
Born in Lille in 1970, French artist Thierry Verbeke is a ‘militant’ artist rather than a visual artist. As Julien
Crenn writes: "He produces an art of peaceful protest, advocating uprising
(to a collective awareness) rather than evolution" (1). The artist does
not have a favourite technique for achieving this, he produces videos,
photographs, installations, etc. His website also mentions ‘augmented objects’,
i.e. objects, shapes or signs that the artist has diverted by sometimes minimal
interventions. Without neglecting the formal questions, he prefers to address
issues related to the world around him: labour conditions, fundamental rights
and freedoms, local or global economy, adolescent subcultures, media models,
and so on. From the observed situation and the bad practice that follows, the
artist distils his form.
