{"id":299,"date":"2024-07-16T22:28:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T22:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samuelperche.com\/?page_id=299"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:08:24","slug":"biographie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/samuelperche.com\/en\/biographie\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00ab <\/sup><\/em>For me, using the word queer is liberating. <\/em><\/p>

It's a word that used to frighten me, but that's no longer the case.<\/em>\u00bb<\/sup><\/em><\/p>

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\" I am a queer artist. <\/em>It\u2019s the prism through which everything is viewed that determines my artistic work. A way of deconstructing and repairing<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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First a videographer, then an actor for theater and television, Samuel moved to R\u00e9union Island in 2013. He graduated from the \u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019Art in 2017 at the age of 37 and began exhibiting his sculptures and paintings, which challenge heroic masculinity. At the same time, he became involved in the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights in the Indian Ocean, while also contributing to the island\u2019s artistic scene.<\/p>

Having been interested in the margins from a very young age, he immersed himself in a predominantly literary and theatrical gay culture where identity is portrayed as suffering and struggling against a short-term future. In his artistic world, the body, as a paradigm, interrogates space through its plastic and political form. While identity has long been defined by the body, his sculptures and paintings seek to make visible the silenced aspects of absent bodies and new queer identities. By queering representations of classical physicality, by blurring the boundaries of the realities of the flesh, between critique and homage, the gesture is envisioned as a utopian horizon.<\/p>

En 2024, iel revient s\u2019installer dans l\u2019h\u00e9xagone et continue son exploration sur la dominance des corps, la virilit\u00e9 et la binarit\u00e9 au-d\u00e9l\u00e0 des identit\u00e9s normatives. Samuel Perche signe d\u00e9sormais sous le pseudonyme de sam\u00b7e.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Photograhie : Bruno Geslin<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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In my work, as in my life, I see the body as a means of deconstructing dominant masculinity by representing it, as well as the capacity of forms to produce, maintain, or fracture dominant gender systems. Refuting hegemonic masculinity, as an injunction, is, for me, a gesture that is simultaneously personal, political, and artistic.<\/p>

Shifting masculinity from the register of domination to that of sensitivity does not mean replacing it with a \u00ab<\/sup><\/em>beyond gender<\/em>\u00bb<\/sup><\/em>, but rather, it involves challenging it from within, exposing its vulnerabilities by pushing it to its own excesses and breaking points. Occupying space with queer bodies constitutes an act of disobedience against the sexist and gender hierarchies that structure social violence. My work is rooted in this tension: it engages the body as a site of conflict, memory, and resistance. By using historically dominant codes (the masculine body, musculature, monumentality), I seek to disrupt the legibility of a political regime of representation.<\/p>

The heroic male body, erected since Greco-Roman antiquity as a model of strength, constitutes both an acknowledged starting point and an ambiguous model. Based on personal and communal iconography, it represents a reversal of the stigma - \u00ab<\/sup><\/em>from the visual function to its function of making visible<\/em>\u00bb<\/sup><\/em>1<\/sup>, I seek to render the body unstable, unsuitable for its normative function, and therefore vulnerable. The nude retains an emancipatory value \u2013 not as provocation, but as a formal anatomical device: it allows us to emphasize muscular and emotional tensions, morphological and social ruptures.<\/p>

Against the legacy of a muscular body-measure as a surface of authoritarian and conquering power, I propose situated bodies, traversed by their histories and sexualities, activated by drives, collective legacies and movements; bodies marked, cracked by symbolic violence, but never reduced to their traumas: bodies in motion in search of a common balance.<\/p>

The question of queer collective identity is explored as an unstable and malleable set of bodies in constant recomposition. Traversed by other norms and narratives that allow for the relinquishment of control over its form, this alternative morphology of the body becomes visible. \u00ab<\/sup><\/em>une sous-culture par laquelle il devient possible de se r\u00e9approprier ce qu\u2019il nous a \u00e9t\u00e9 interdit de montrer au grand jour.<\/em>\u00bb<\/sup><\/em> 2<\/sup><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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1<\/sup> Quentin Petit-Dit-Duhal, Art queer : Histoire et th\u00e9orie des repr\u00e9sentations LGBTQIA+, <\/em>Double Ponctuation \u00e9ditions, mars 2024.<\/p>

2<\/sup> Tal Madesta, D\u00e9sirer \u00e0 tout prix, \u00e9dition<\/em> La Collection sur la table, 2022<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00ab Pour moi utiliser le mot queer est une lib\u00e9ration. C\u2019est un mot qui m\u2019effrayait, mais ce n\u2019est plus le cas.\u00bb Derek Jarman biographie \u00ab Je suis un artiste queer. C\u2019est le prisme de tout ce qui d\u00e9termine mon travail artistique. Une fa\u00e7on de d\u00e9construire et de r\u00e9parer.\u00bb D\u2019abord vid\u00e9aste, puis com\u00e9dien pour le th\u00e9\u00e2tre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1675,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-299","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nBiographie – Samuel Perche<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Parcourez la biographie de Samuel Perche, artiste dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 de l'\u00c9cole sup\u00e9rieure d'art. 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