Jésus Baptista

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My family immigrated to France illegally - in Portugal they call this the Salto - in the 1960s. That event conditions who I am today. This part of our history has remained hazy, and was long kept silent. Heres: the heir. We inherit what comes back to us, but also what we do not yet possess, what we are deprived of. Deprived of this history, I set off in my family's footsteps, thus writing myself into its history by living out memories at various key phases of its journey. Events have made me the heir to the family home where my grandmother remained alone until the end. My odyssey back in time and space marks my role as an intermediary ; I taking history on board by being the link with the past.

Jésus Baptista

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Born in 1992, lives and works in Paris. 

Graduating as a member of the 2022–2024 cohort at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. In June 2016 he obtained a Higher National Diploma in Visual Expression from the Haute École des arts du Rhin, specialising in Visual Didactics. This option places artistic mediation at the heart of his thinking. 

Since then he has worked as a freelance video artist in Paris, with the medium of video at the centre of his concerns: what was once a broadcast medium becomes a plastic material. He has presented immersive installations at Nuit blanche in Paris, the Ososphère festival in Strasbourg, the Sélestat contemporary art biennial, the Constellations international festival in Metz, the SAT (Société des arts technologiques) in Montreal, the House of Electronic Arts Basel, the Athens Digital Arts Festival and the CDSA prize in Hangzhou, China.

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