Alain Declercq

Alain Declercq (France, 1969) is an artist and teacher at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He is represented in France by Galerie Loevenbruck. For over 20 years, he has exhibited in museums and art centers in France (Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art Moderne, Palais de Tokyo) and abroad (Kansas City 21C Museum, ISCP New York, ArtSonje Seoul). Through his installations, photographs and films, he explores different power structures and the oppressions they engender – security schizophrenia, surveillance, media manipulation. Declercq’s technique of inversion transforms him into a provocateur of dysfunctions and an impediment to going round in circles.

Alain Declercq’s residency is devoted to archive research for the realization of two portraits of intelligence agents who operated at the end of the Second World War. Aloïs Hudal, Pope Pius XII’s archbishop, whose pontificate archives were opened in 2020, and Adam Saulnier, journalist and Free French intelligence agent who took up residence in 1945 in a Villa Médicis occupied by the French army.