Philippe Ramette

Born in 1961 in Auxerre.

Philippe Ramette is a French visual artist whose practice spans photography, sculpture, installation, and drawing. He lives and works in Paris.
He began his sculpture studies at the Villa Arson in Nice (1987-1989). There, he produced surrealist-inspired works. His early sculptures are given complex titles, often coercive and coldly humorous, in reference to the utopias of 19th-century inventors:
Socle à réflexion (1989), Objets à se faire foudroyer (1991), and Potence prévention pour dictator potentiel (1993).
Later, his sculptures featured characters (Éloge de la discretion, 2012; Éloge du pas de côté, 2018; Éloge de la transgression, 2018). At the same time, his photographs, which transpose the humor and strangeness of his sculptures into images, have earned him considerable visibility. The artist—who stages himself—creates acrobatic performances without trickery or digital retouching, between heaven and earth, on the edge of emptiness, which pleasantly deceive the eye and thus function as a puzzle to be solved.
In 2020/2021, following an invitation from the MiniMasterpiece gallery to design a wearable sculpture, Philippe Ramette created the "Bracelet to Always Take the Right Direction." This piece is a complete continuation of his entire body of work.