Gilles Paté

Visual artist

Born  august 24, 1966
gillespate@gmail.com

06 17 12 72 62

Interventions, workshops, exhibitions

2001-2009 Life objects photographic workshop in immigrant's foyers in Paris: an object as a testimony on immigration and personal history.

2008 Urban Atlas film 13' realized with Yves Buraud from the book Urban Atlas Yves Buraud (ed Al dante)

2004 Royan Captures art workshop on public space 4 artists produce works on the public space

2003 The fakir's rest video on anti-homeless design in Paris, realized with Stéphane Argillet , produced by Canal Marches association (Paris).

2002  Macro-photography workshop with prisoners in Osny prison.

2000 Transform-actions Exhibition on the transformations of the landscape of Saint Denis la Plaine, with Paola Salerno, Florence de Comarmond and Jacques Moeschler.

1999 Unemployement urban walkpath With Ne Pas Plier and Apeis associations in Ivry sur Seine. On an idea of Yves Buraud : putting the unemployement graph on a city map and following it.

1998      Altitude telescope, optical device to watch the ground and the landscape around an observatory for children on the top of a social housing (Ivry). Realized for the association Ne Pas Plier with the help of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation.

Publications

2002       Altitude telescope published by Ne Pas Plier association

The fakir's rest archive publication in "9/9"review.

1995      Urban interventions with Arteleku art center, Spanish Basque country, workshop organised by Antoni Muntadas.

1994 Floirac photographic serie of portraits of inhabitants / city situations. Published by Claim d'art association

1992 Transit spaces   group publication with  K. Wodicko, ENSBA, Paris.

Studies

1994 National fine arts school, Paris

1989       Applied arts school, Paris