Johnny Lebigot
Born in Normandy, near the Mont Saint-Michel, Johnny Lebigot studied literature in Caen in the late 1990s. A writer and a collector of plants, he ended up bringing his two passions together with Brins d'histoire (Story Sprigs), an unpublished tale about the impossibility to name things, weaved together with blades of grass. At age 23, while still a budding visual artist, he was put in charge of cultural programming in Stains, in the suburbs of Paris. There, this fan of French music developed a project revolving around improvised music and dedicated a building to exhibitions. In 2003, he joined the team of the Théâtre L'Echangeur in Bagnolet, of which he is now the co-director, where he launched with Régis Hebette a programme focusing on innovating forms. In 2005, encouraged by a friend of his, a painter and film set designer moved by his strange and ever-growing collection, Johnny Lebigot imagined his first table, which he called La nature et l'absence (“Nature and Absence”). Since then, he has designed about fifteen exhibitions, experimenting with form: sculptures, installations, performances. His poetic works revolve around a research about forms, about the confusion of different realms.
