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Livestream performance, Paris, March 22, 2020, during the first coronavirus quarantine. Sitting at a table, very close to a candle, just a few centimeters away. Staying immobile, breathing in and out. With every breath the flame flickers.

Jakob Gautel Born in 1965 in Karlsruhe, Germany, lives and works in Paris, but not exclusively. Studied at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His multiform work (photo, video, installation, performance, drawings, books ...) deals with the image and explores the frontiers between essence and appearance, reality and fiction. Production of sens rather than of objects ...