In Practice: Bastien Gachet

Bastien Gachet’s work uses new approaches to fabrication and installation to draw out the immanent, emergent, and durational qualities of art. Gachet meticulously hand-produces objects and installation elements across media, subtly elaborating on and bending parallel categories that have been used consistently, if inadequately, to define recent art: the “pre-intentional” and intentional; the found and the made; the real and the fake, expanding into notions of the “fake-real” and the “fake-fake” (in the artist’s terminology). In his forthcoming exhibition at SculptureCenter, Gachet collects and organizes these contrasting modes into what he has called an “object-based dramaturgy,” a structure of meaning opening itself across unsettlingly constructed and resonant environments.