Represented exclusively by THEMA, Coll-Part has been creating, since the 1970s, a polymorphic body of work that intertwines unease, derision, and visual jubilation. His pieces (hybrid furniture, caustic objects, domestic artefacts) embody the bewilderment he experiences before the spectacle of our millennium. They are saturated with both trivial and theological references, imbued with a pop irony, sometimes surreal, that never conceals the disquiet it carries.

Coll-Part’s practice thrives on collision: of materials, forms, and idioms. His visual universe draws equally from art history and popular culture: Duchamp’s readymades, Ionesco’s theatre of the absurd, the Memphis movement, Jacques Carelman’s catalog of impossible objects, the makeshift poetry of Fischli & Weiss. Within this absurdist theatre, furniture acquires sentience: a table strides forward on stockinged legs, a wardrobe undulates like a dancer, a console transforms into an instrument of exquisite torment…