Xavier Duffaut

Born in 1996, Belgian, works and lives in Brussels (B).

About the Artist

Xavier Duffaut’s practice encompasses installations, sculptures and performances that draw as much from the conventions of exhibition-making as from those of theatrical staging. His work employs hybrid formats—objects, environments, situations and performative devices—which enable him to explore various interpretative frameworks spanning fiction, social critique and popular culture.

His projects often take the form of offbeat, absurd, disillusioned and sometimes unsettling narratives. Through these scenarios, he explores collective imaginations linked to consumerism, contemporary technologies and media narratives.

Alongside his installations, Xavier Duffaut develops a series of performances and conceptual projects that extend this logic of subversion. Drawing equally on the codes of marketing, sport, entertainment and event management, these works blur the boundaries between artistic experience and mass culture. Projects such as Daddy Issues, Stranger Things at the Art Fair, Délivrénoo Fitness Club and Black Friday demonstrate this desire to transform contemporary mechanisms of seduction into grounds for critical fiction.

Throughout his practice, Xavier Duffaut explores how contemporary systems of representation shape our behaviour and our imaginations, creating works that are critical, ambiguous and deliberately alluring.