« Croyance, Technique, Hasard » a conversation between Francisco Tropa and François Piron
Francisco Tropa, Sans titre, 2013 – vue de l’exposition « Paésine » à la Villa Paloma – photo NMNM / Andrea Rossetti, 2024
Francisco Tropa was born in 1968; he lives and works in Lisbon.
Time, tales and formal aesthetics are the main elements of his work. The artist links stories together, retelling mythologies, technologies, science and societies. Tropa uses several media – sculpture, drawing, performance, engraving, installation, photography and film — to convey a series of reflections catalysed by the different traditions of sculpture and science. His installations abound in precise and precious objects, geometric and elaborate forms, delicate prototypes and complex machines. His pieces are most clearly underpinned by the notion of time. Time is also decisive in the studio work by the artist, who sometimes develops his projects over several years.
François Piron is a curator, art critic, teacher and publisher. He is currently senior curator at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
He has participated in the creation of several structures for contemporary art, notably Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, which he co-directed between 2000 and 2006, and castillo/corrales in Paris, between 2007 and 2015. He co-directs the cooperative publishing house Paraguay (www.paraguaypress.com).
He was responsible for the international post-graduate residency at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, where he has taught since 2002. His curatorial work focuses on the relationship between art and literature, as well as between art, history and the social sciences, making marginalized areas of culture visible and questioning the role of institutions.
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