Sabotage de Nicolas Daubanes

Sabotage is a powerful work for its message of resistance: that of the prisoners who built the Atlantic Wall by mixing sugar with concrete to weaken it.

From this strategy of resistance, Nicolas Daubanes has created a sculpture made of concrete and sugar, with an invisible metal frame.

In the shape of a staircase, it is an emergency exit diverted and rising towards the sky. This off-axis spiral, weighing almost 4.5 tonnes and standing 2 metres high, will be installed at the rear of Brou in September 2023. Playing with perspective and natural light, Sabotage also echoes the monastery's history as a place of confinement - a monastic cloister, but also a prison and hospital at times. Today, it is a cultural venue open to all art forms and all audiences, whose collections are occasionally installed in public spaces.

The artist: Nicolas DAUBANES

Born in 1983, Nicolas Daubanes is a recognized artist, whose work is represented in the most important private and public collections. In the Bourg-en-Bresse area, he exhibited in 2022-2023 at Revonnas during Campagne-Première and at H2M in the group show "Retourner voir".

Winner of the Prix Yia 2016, the Grand Prix Occitanie d'art contemporain 2017, the Prix Mezzanine Sud les Abattoirs 2017 and the Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo in 2018, Nicolas Daubanes has exhibited in numerous institutions including the Villa Arson in Nice, les Abattoirs (FRAC Occitanie Toulouse), the FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, the MRAC in Sérignan. In 2019-2020, he had solo exhibitions at FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, Château d'Oiron and Palais de Tokyo.

A major artist, Nicolas Daubanes has major exhibitions planned for 2025 in France.