CORENTIN DARRÉ

From a process of writing—whether tales or short stories, Corentin Darré creates installations that materialize an actantial structure within the exhibition. His sculptural works take the form of architectural elements—cabins, pontoons, façades—like spaces that have escaped from fiction. Within these fragments, he inserts images, both still and moving, words, and objects: elements that point to the unfolding narrative, acting as a compass, as markers, and guiding visitors.

Corentin Darré reinterprets the legends and figures that shape the collective imagination, and by reversing the destination of their moral warning, he invents new mythic representations and questions the ways the world responds to otherness. He tells the stories of those who have been accused, hunted, and condemned: homosexuals, queer individuals, marginalized beings. He diverts myths, overturns dominant moral frameworks, and transforms curses into mirrors of social violence. In his narratives, the monster is the one created by rejection, the one who has been forced into wandering. Between tragedy and resistance, his works weave new mythologies in which queerness becomes central, taking its place within the folds of a collective imagination long marked by hostility.