THISISNOTWHATYOUTHINK
RV (b.1979) has been practicing for the last 25 years using an array of media spanning from videoart to painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, scenography and sound.
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His work was presented in festivals, museums and institutions in more than 20 countries, including Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome, Italy), Teatro Fondamenta Nuove (Venice, Italy), Cinémathèque Québécoise (Montreal, Canada), El Segundo Museum of Art (California, USA), IMARP (São Paulo, Brazil), Fringe! (London, UK).
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He currently lives in Brussels, where he is also active in the public space with guerrilla urban art, as well as with exhibitions and commissioned art, including 99 permanent tiny installations at Gare Maritime.
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RV is part of a larger artistic project comprising several other correlated pseudonyms practicing different arts, from different points of view, with different styles.
"En ses solitudes heureuses, l'enfant rêveur connaît la rêverie cosmique, celle qui nous unit au monde"
"In his happy solitudes, the dreaming child knows the cosmic reverie, the one that unites us to the world"
(Gaston Bachelard, La poétique de la rêverie)
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The path that leads from the loneliness of the child to the loneliness of the adult, from the world of dreams and magic to the world of rules and measures, is built on bridges of regret connecting the clouds to the earth.
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Between poetry and pornography, between hope and despair, multidisciplinary artist rv exploits the ironic contradictions of the human condition, stuck in the eternal passage of time.
