Noah Boucard’s artistic practice engages with a wide range of media, including sound and video installations, paintings, and text-based publications. A defining aspect of his approach is the uncompromising way in which he brings personal experiences into the exhibition context.

The video work Drugs offers an intimate insight into what happens when socially conventional frameworks dissolve under the influence of substances.

A similar reference appears in the autofictional publication Valium, which operates both as a book and as a sound installation. Particularly striking is Boucard’s use of language: the texts in Valium read like streams of consciousness, constantly interrupted by new thoughts. In the spatial installation, a speaker relays the artist’s experiences through loudspeakers. Boucard reflects on the boundary between the self — as something personal and intimate — and the entity of an artwork.

His series Boys combines screen print with painting and addresses his own constructions of identity. On a painting overpainted in white, the word “Boys” appears at the top in large red letters. Does this refer to a concept of gender roles that presents itself as an apparently empty page, which upon closer inspection is not empty at all? These multiple layers of narration run throughout Boucard’s practice.

— original version by Ioanna Valavanis