Born in Nice, France, in 1975. Lives and works in Nice.

Since the mid-2000s, Alexandre Capan has dedicated himself to a practice that reflects a fairly simple approach to the artist’s work, and which makes no distinction between various media, or at least uses them in a non-hierarchical manner, hewing to the basic premise that everything is painting.
Thus, reproductions of drawn photographs, paintings, or photographed and scanned drawings, the use and treatment of outtakes and fragments of videos or photographs, or photographs themselves join drawings and paintings on a formal level.
To generalize, one might say that what transpires in this work through the use of “almost nothing” and things left behind is a deliberate placing between parentheses of meaning, of exploring the floating character of a certain “reality” and to just let it be. Actions and non-actions are marked by the nuance and vibration of materials. The non-definitive character of forms and processes is what’s at work in the series presented here.
Since 2009, this visual work has relied on music and sound in general to develop in a way that has become essential to the artist’s practice. Drawing, painting, video and sound pieces dialogue with one another, feeding each other in a continuous back and forth.
The pieces produced have thus contributed to deepening an approach to time that proved impossible to translate by any other means than through sound, and those pieces have influenced in turn the artist’s approach to drawing and painting.