In his assemblages, Léo Fourdrinier manages to recover this essentially surrealist gesture, a worthy descendant of André Breton’s reflections and of the “poem-object,” where desire, encounter, chance, dream, poetry, love, and freedom intertwine.
— Gaël Charbau
Léo Fourdrinier, born in 1992, lives and works in Toulon. He graduated from the École Supérieure d’Arts et Médias de Caen/Cherbourg in 2017. His work is distinguished by a sculptural practice that explores the relationships between past and present, reality and imagination.
At the intersection of mythology, archaeology, science, and popular culture, Léo Fourdrinier’s works combine classical forms, found objects, and materials crafted by hand or produced industrially. This juxtaposition creates sculptures and installations where power and sensitivity, structure and beauty, life and artifice intertwine, offering a contemporary reading of mythologies and human narratives.
He exhibited at the CACN – Centre d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes in 2021 and presented his work during the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Manifesto of Fragility, in 2022. In 2025, he held a solo exhibition, Les historiens du futur, at the Musée Henri Prades in partnership with MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, in Lattes.
In 2022, he was a finalist for the 9th Bourse Révélations Emerige and in 2023 won the Marval Collection Prize. He has participated in various residency programs, including Le Confort Moderne (Poitiers, France), 40mcube/GENERATOR (Rennes, France), and Le Port des Créateurs (Toulon, France).