Born in 1998 in Nantes, Pierre Allain lives and works in Lyon. He is co-founder of the artist run space "monopole" based in Lyon. He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 2021. His work was presented at the Kunstverein of Bielefeld and at the CAP Saint-Fons in 2022.
All of Pierre Allain's research is related to bodies and the invisible alterations to which they are subject - or rather, of which they are the subjects. Each of his projects is the result of manipulations of multiple sources that intertwine to establish a critical reading of objects and materials in order to question their presupposed neutrality.
The scientific and psychological analysis of materials, the study of syndromes and unexplained pathologies, the testimonies of strangers, the collaboration with companies, the agricultural context, the industrial design or the daily experience of the body in the public space constitute so many materials and sources which allow the artist to question the vulnerability of the bodies (human, non-human, social) and their misuse.
His work is thus played in the interstice of a visible history and a secret history, that of the discrete transformation of the body in subject, of its disincarnation and, by extension, of our effort of compensation.