MORE Projects x Georges J. Ayrault present “ONES”
For the 2025 edition of Paris International, MORE Projects once again composes, with many hands, a new arrangement. Inviting Georges J. Ayrault (b. 1997) as the lead instrumentalist, the collective orchestrates a proposition that amplifies not a single but a multitude of voices. The opportunity of participation is extended as a plural and expansible invitation, addressing the invitee not as someone but as a sum, an ensemble. From there arises a piece, carried out by a chorus, reverberating beyond the building’s walls.
Installation view, Ones, by Georges J. Ayrault, Paris Internationale 2025
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Georges J. Ayrault, From A., 2025.
A striped tie with various patterns, suspended by a needle from a bunch of
mismatched knitting needles (gift from Martine who knits and sews a lot) in
a prototype of a tie rack made from folded wallpaper, peach–terracotta
color, 2000s, held by hair clips, with a green fish-shaped doorknob found
in Bergerac whose sky-blue–violet pair is hidden in another piece,
and a small scrap of wrapping paper.
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Georges J. Ayrault, From A. (detail), 2025.
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GEORGES J. AYRAULT (b. 1997). Lives in Paris, works in Argenteuil, France.
@georges.ju.ay
Georges J. Ayrault’s practice is based on his collection of «dead stock», a corpus of recovered objects –from second-hand markets, waste, and many donations, reshaped with as much affection as concern. These sources allow him to question the locality of production, but also what constitutes value scales –seeking to reinsert the pieces into a proximity that is both geographical and emotional. His work is based on a documentary and critical approach to our contemporary modes of consumption and is interested in how these materials and objects are media, conveying norms and producing domination. Recovery is a strategy used as an attempt at rewriting and reappropriation.
Georges J. Ayrault, From Mum (De Maman), 2025.
Piece of fabric, coated with gesso and violet floral printed paper from the
1970s that Georges’s mother had found and kept, and used as wrapping
paper for gifts, which Georges himself retrieved.
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Georges J. Ayrault, For (Pour), 2025
Installation, unique piece (30 x 200 x 250 cm)
Three ties (including two offered by Audrey, friend of Georges), held by a
knitting needle, hidden in a wall built of MDF and wood, painted in purple
(with paint coming from a paint shop in Villeperdue which closed and
whose remaining stock was bought by a materials resale shop).
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Georges J. Ayrault, For U, 2025.
Vintage lamp from the 1990s, gift made to an artist from Georges
via his friend Audrey, in his absence, left in a café in Paris.
The gift remains a gift.
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Georges J. Ayrault, For K. (Pour K.), 2025.
Tracing paper from a roll of tracing paper (from the architecture firm
where Louis’s father, friend of Georges, worked, and which closed),
folded and glued, placed on a base made from a piece of compact,
set on feet made with stolen coat hook knobs, held by pieces shaped
in metal. Hidden fish doorknob.
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Georges J. Ayrault, Ones (Unxes), 2025.
Box of Mon Chéri (16 pieces of dark chocolate with cherry liqueur)
free to take.
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