samuel perche
Samuel Perche’s artistic path is part of a life story that has a personal as well as a collective dimension, with intimate narratives and community struggles.
For a time he was an actor on stage and television, then went and settled down in La Reunion, a French overseas department, where he obtained a diploma from the National School of Arts in 2017 and organised exhibitions of his work as painter and sculptor.
« I’m a gay artist, this is the prism of all my work» he says. Permeating his work there is the need for repair, the need to heal individual and collective wounds, fantasy worlds traumatised in the past and the present. If identity necessarily has to do with body experience, « revealing the intimacy of gay desire » becomes a new paradigm to question that which has been silenced or made invisible in gay identity in progress. Through such aesthetics as is both poetical and political, Samuel Perche thus explores the notion of desire, of bodies and homoeroticism, to question their representations.
