Gyan Panchal
baby bathtub, cap, pigment
47 x 41 x 54 cm
unique
Exhibition views 'la soustraite', 2026. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo : Aurélien Mole
tent, salt block for cattle
unique
Exhibition view 'l'acquiescement', 2026. Treignac Projet. Photo: Sam Basu
tabletop, table leg, paint
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Exhibition view 'l'acquiescement', 2026. Treignac Projet. Photo: Sam Basu
chopping block, balm
45 x 45 x 2 cm
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Exhibition view 'la soustraite', 2026. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo : Aurélien Mole
sandbox, trowel, paint
164 x 95 x 23 cm
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Exhibition views 'la soustraite', 2026. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo : Aurélien Mole
washing machine window
variable dimension
unique
feeding trough
27 x 15 x 6,5 cm
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Exhibition view 'la soustraite', 2026. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo : Aurélien Mole
water collector, paint
156 x 103 x 52 cm
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Exhibition view 'L'art dans les chapelles', 2025. Pontivy. Photo : Aurélien Mole
baby bath, paint
25 x 68 x 37 cm
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Exhibition view 'L'art dans les chapelles', 2025. Pontivy. Photo : Aurélien Mole
changing table, paint
46 x 81 x 12 cm
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Exhibition view 'la soustraite', 2026. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo : Aurélien Mole
baby bathtub, paint
unique
Exhibition view 'l'acquiescement', 2026. Treignac Projet. Photo: Sam Basu
garden chair, paint
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Exhibition view 'l'acquiescement', 2026. Treignac Projet. Photo: Sam Basu
fold-down seat
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Exhibition view 'l?acquiescement', 2026. Treignac Projet. Photo: Sam Basu
slide, pendulum weight
47 x 67 x 15 cm
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Exhibition view 'l'acquiescement', 2026. Treignac Projet. Photo: Sam Basu
sandbox
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Exhibition view 'l'acquiescement', 2026. Treignac Projet. Photo: Sam Basu
cold room lock, paint
12 x 20 x 12 cm
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Exhibition view 'la soustraite', 2026. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo : Aurélien Mole
awning, paint
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Exhibition view 'l'acquiescement', 2026. Treignac Projet. Photo: Sam Basu
Refrigerator, toys
79 x 60 x 134 cm
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Exhibition view 'L'ivraie', 2022. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
photo: Aurélien Mole
photo: Aurélien Mole
photo: Aurélien Mole
Fuel nozzle
33 x 20 x 5,5 cm
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Exhibition view 'L'ivraie', 2022. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien
photo: Aurélien Mole
desk, float, paint
108 x 60 x 68 cm
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Exhibition view 'L'ivraie', 2022. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien
photo: Aurélien Mole
photo: Aurélien Mole
Freezer, buoy
162 x 59 x 79 cm
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Exhibition view 'L'ivraie', 2022. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
photo: Aurélien Mole
photo: Aurélien Mole
photo: Aurélien Mole
Windsock, fan, paint
372 x 60 x 210 cm
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Exhibition view 'L'ivraie', 2022. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
photo: Aurélien Mole
photo: Aurélien Mole
photo: Aurélien Mole
photo: Aurélien Mole
Glove for hydrocarbons, castration ring
33 x 15 x 3 cm
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Exhibition view 'L'ivraie', 2022. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien
photo: Aurélien Mole
photo: Aurélien Mole
Energy drink can, toy
12,5 x 11,5 x 9 cm
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Exhibition view 'L'ivraie', 2022. Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien
trampoline
427 x 88 cm
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Exhibition view Printemps de septembre, 2021
photo: Damien Aspe
L'édenté, 2021
trampoline
427 x 88 cm
unique
Exhibition view Printemps de septembre, 2021
photo: Damien Aspe
L'édenté, 2021
trampoline
427 x 88 cm
unique
Exhibition view Printemps de septembre, 2021
photo: Damien Aspe
Glove, pine resin
25 x 14 cm
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photo: Aurélien Mole
toys, paint
90 x 90 x 50 cm
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photo: Aurélien Mole
plastic tarpaulin
300 cm
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photo: Aurélien Mole
wreck, painting
216 x 115 x 50 cm
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Exhibition view 'Au seuil de soi', 2019. Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Etienne. Photo:
soft toy, resin, wire
17 x 19 cm
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hopper, protective glove, resin, iron wire
133 x 123 x 88 cm
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photo : Aurélien Mole
neoprene suit, fishing rod, nylon wire
204 x 72 x 30 cm
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photo : Aurélien Mole
protective garment, animal marking stick, steel
178 x 100 x 14 cm
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buoy, paint, rope
93 x 40 x 42 cm
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photo: Aurélien Mole pour le musée d'art contemporain de Rochechouart
mast, protective suit, livestock marker, resin
variables
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photo: Aurélien Mole pour le musée d'art contemporain de Rochechouart
board shape, artificial fish, resin, wire
316 x 33 x 15 cm
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photo: Aurélien Mole pour le musée d'art contemporain de Rochechouart
silo, natural pigment, resin, insemination glove
182 x 171 x 88 cm
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Exhibition view 'Au seuil de soi ', 2019. MAMC+ Saint-Étienne. Photo: Aurélien Mole
pigeon nest, rosin
diam. 28 x H 5 cm
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Exhibition view 'Accueille-moi paysage', 2016, Marcelle Alix, Paris / Photo Aurélien Mole
polyurethane, rust
58 x 27,5 x 84 cm
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Exhibition view 'Redevenir soleil', 2015, Marcelle Alix, Paris / Photo Aurélien Mole
lambing hurdle, animal marking stick
155 x 124 x 113 cm
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Exhibition view 'Qui n'est pas tourné vers nous', 2014, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, FR
Kreqa, 2014
lambing hurdle, marking pencil
155 x 124 x 113 cm
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Exhibition view 'Qui n'est pas tourné vers nous', 2014, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, FR
altered gutter, animal marking stick
401 x 11 x 6 cm
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Exhibition view 'Redevenir soleil', 2015, Marcelle Alix, Paris / Photo Aurélien Mole
La vendange, 2014
altered gutter, marking pencil
401 x 11 x 6 cm
exhibition view 'Redevenir soleil', 2015, Marcelle Alix, Paris / Photo Aurélien Mole
fiberglass, sunflower petals
151 x 27,5 x 2 cm
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Exhibition view 'Qui n'est pas tourné vers nous', 2014, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, FR
Katsajai, 2014
fiberglass, sunflower petals
27,5 x 2 x 151 cm
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Exhibition view 'Qui n'est pas tourné vers nous', 2014, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, FR / Photo Yohann Gozard
altered mason's ruler
300 x 10 x 2 cm
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Exhibition view 'Un battement se déplace en spirale', 2014, Galerie Nicolas Silin, Paris
Polypropylene, turmeric
100 x 80 cm
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photo: Aurélien Mole
PVC, sisal, dust
170 x 100 x 30 cm
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photo: Aurélien Mole
extruded polystyrene
125 x 60 cm
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photo: Aurélien Mole
expanded polystyrene
122 x 117 x 60 cm
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photo: Aurélien Mole
expanded polystyrene
115 x 110 x 60 cm
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photo: Aurélien Mole
Gyan Panchal, allows himself to recycle rejected materials - the polystyrene that produces our lives as consumers, born from the industrial transformations and operations of the fossil fuels that powered our modern comfort, our transient prosperity, and the wars of the past century (...). These are materials and forms that he does not conflate, but rather adjoins. The process appeals to him, disconcerts him, intrigues him, amuses him, connects him to surrounding worlds and beings. He allows himself to develop a - benevolent - interest in them, in the Benjaminian tradition of the "aura"; he does not reduce them to their utility, to their functional value, to what they were originally intended for, but instead preserves the outline of their genealogy, their substance; he does not reduce them to a "trait of insignificance": he gives them a place, makes room for them in his attention, in his gestures, in the studio, in his voice and - later - in the exhibition space; little by little, he creates the conditions for them to transfer from one form to another, or to other recomposed forms, to other fixities or other fluidities, to other cohabitations devoid of mergers or hybridisations; it is a "broadening" of life, of presences, of the occupation or unfurling of space, of contacts. Sculpture, perhaps after it has claimed this initial death of things for itself, after it has become emancipated from the noxious chemistry of its materials, is similar to the poem, which, as Jean-Christophe Bailly describes it, "if considered in all of its plenitude, exceeds the mere question of its genre and broadens out, spreads out beyond itself, and recovers its memory."
[Source: Marjorie Micucci, "Here Begins a New Life" in Gyan Panchal: Au seuil de soi, monographic publication, ed. Snoeck + MAMC+ Saint-Etienne, 2019]
Gyan Panchal (b.1973) lives in Eymoutiers (Limousin, France). A graduate of the Jan Van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, NL), his work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, most recently at Angle centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux; Treignac Projet; and Alea–Artagon, Pantin (2025–2026); as well as at the Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, France (2017), and Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India (2018, 2015, 2012). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; FRAC Île-de-France, Les Réserves, Romainville; Kunstverein Braunschweig, DE; Musée Zadkine, Paris; and Crédac, centre d’art contemporain, Ivry-sur-Seine.
In 2019, MAMC+—Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne—presented a solo exhibition of his work, accompanied by a monographic publication (Snoeck).
His works are held in prestigious collections, including those of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; CNAP (Centre national des arts plastiques); MNAM–Centre Pompidou; FRAC Île-de-France; MAMC+, Saint-Étienne; FRAC Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Limoges; FRAC MECA, Bordeaux; Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart; FRAC Pays de la Loire; FRAC Normandie; and Lafayette Anticipations.