MAXIME CHABAL
- PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
- GHOST IMAGE
- ALTER_ATION
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DE PROFUNDIS
- DOUBLE EXPOSURE
- CORE (CsO)
- SOLEIL DE PLOMB
- UN CHANT D’AMOUR
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UNTITLED (After Grünewald)
- HARDBEAT
Based in Germany
chabal.maxime@gmail.com
My work focuses on the human body and the complexity surrounding its representation. At first sight cold and clinical, my language reveals a certain delicacy, tenderness and fragility upon closer inspection. The heart of my practice lies in the materials I use, particularly metals, which I manipulate using a variety of techniques to challenge their supposed solidity and hardness. In my installations, sculptures and collages, recurring and haunting images emerge, imbuing my work with a collective, forgotten and affected history. These evanescent and dissident figures engage in a dialogue with my critical research into Western architecture and the history of health and clinical practices. By invoking and transgressing these dominant apparatuses, I wish to highlight how they have impacted the formation of subjectivities and underline the ways in which they have often been used to stigmatize and categorize.
To carry out my exploration, I’ve collaborated with professionals from various scientific and cultural fields. In the past, I have worked with immunologists, biologists, and neuropsychologists, as well as historians of science and health, thus enriching my work with diverse perspectives. By pooling knowledge in this way, I hope to understand how these regimes of knowledge are formed and how, in their hegemony, exclude. Using strategies close to abstraction, I refuse to operate by simply reproducing a sterile aesthetic, so as not to offer a fixed and rigid representation of the bodies involved. Instead, by allowing space for vulnerability and viscerality, I expose these constraining frameworks which, in their precariousness, become the embodiment of new forms of porosity.
Studies
2021 - 2024 Master of Fine Arts, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (DE)
Classes of Pia Stadtbäumer & Kader Attia
2018 - 2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts, ENSBA National School of Fine Arts, Lyon (FR)
Selected exhibitions
2025
Planned Obsolescence, MediaMarkt Village, Hamburg (DE), (curator)
FORVER UNLIMITED, Crack Bellmer, Berlin (DE)
2024
abyss abyss abyss, frappant galerie, Hamburg (DE)
Day & Night, galerie Gruppe Motto, Hamburg (DE)
Separation of powers, AUF MONTAGE, Golden Puddle, Hamburg (DE)
2023
HOMOÖSTASE, frappant galerie, Hamburg (DE), (curator)
It’s human nature ?, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnof, Hamburg (DE)
UNIVOLVED JUNCTIONS, Culterimgallery, Berlin (DE)
Relate to..., ICAT, Hamburg (DE)
Imagining health, ICAT, Hamburg (DE)
2022
Non Knowledge, laughter and the moving image, ICAT, Hamburg (DE)
Tensions, Kuenstlerische Tatsachen, Jena (DE)
Wetland, Hardrives, Hardwares, Studio Peragine, Hambourg (DE)
I_U_SO_MUCH_RIGHT_NOW, villa Magdalena, Hamburg, with Aliha Thalien (duo show) (DE)
A single Violent Transplant, Théâtre des expositions, Paris (FR)
2021
I’ve never promised you a rose garden (part I), EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e. V, Hamburg (DE)
Daylight, all night long, monopole, Lyon (FR)
Il n’y avait plus d’été, Bac à sable, Lyon (FR)
2020
Système D), Secret location, Vaulx en Velin, (FR)
Rendez la chambre forte, 27 rue Hypollite Flandrin, Lyon (FR)
Performances
2024
Separation of powers, AUF MONTAGE, Golden Puddle, Hamburg (DE)
2023
5to9, M.I.N.I.S.T.R.Y, HFBK Lerchenfeld 2, Hamburg (DE)
2022
Anesthesia, A single violet transplant, Théâtre des expositions, Paris (FR)
2020
Ex-Nihlo with Bastien Charmette, CNSMD Lyon (FR)
2018
Serie of 3 performances, His touch changed everything, collaboration with Tii Ansio, London (UK)
Prize/Residencies
2025
Arbeitsstipendium für bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler, Hamburg (DE)
2022
Deutschlandstipendium, HFBK (DE)
2022
Art&Science residency program, Kuenstlerische Tatsachen, Jena (DE)
2021
Performance residency program, Bac à Sable, Lyon (FR)
2021
Prize from Kenza Fondation, Paris, France (FR)