Attraction is an utopia, the affirmation that the world can be redesigned in order to feel it, think it and live it . This poetic reconstruction deviate from usual paths to create new alternatives in radical resistance to ready-to-think.

Theory: the world is matter, it obey laws of physics: flow, equilibrium, energies, space-time, gravitation, attraction. Johann Le Guillerm starts from o, from original chaos. He seeks to understand how shapes are fixed, how trajectories are differentiated, how flow and forces are organized to reorganize the gaze on our environment. This singular vision mixes the poetry of dreamed landscapes and the pragmatism of intuition and experience in order to disturb our certitudes.

Principles: Johann Le Guillerm exposes himself as a practitioner of the territory of viewpoints. He builds a philosophy that, literally, “surrounds” a topic: the world is both what we see and what is invisible to us. To apprehend it entirely, one has to adopt a vision that takes into account the multiplicity of points of view – even the opposite ones. Johann Le Guillerm considers the world as a volume that one cannot see as a whole: his quest is to discover each day new faces and new territories.

Postulates: Do it yourself is his credo. Johann Le Guillerm carries out his experiments in a laboratory as a scientist but with his own tools. Fully autodidact, he observes and experiment the laws of nature, he classifies his observations into autonomous but connected works in progress. The organisation is “rhizomatic”, centreless and with multiple points of entry and exit. The works in progress can develop themselves into ramified structures, they can transform each other, and they can even cross each other, without any predetermined order or hierarchy. This process is a “nomadic” way of structuring the observations, in the sense of Deleuze and Guattari: “a form of thinking that follows a line of flight and that avoids the meshes of institutional forces”.

Experimentation: In his laboratory, the artist experiments his hypothesis in order to nourish his imaginary landscape tied to physics, genetics, astronomy, botany… He doesn’t think with postulates but through analogies to create his own mathematics of the forms of the Universe, a mathematics of intuition founded on experimentation. His knowledge leans on very personal reasoning: starting from accurate observations, he has devised a series of nomenclatures, real identity cards of the observed phenomena classified according to their shapes, movement, phonic, graphic or morphological identity. Rebellious against the established orders, Johann Le Guillerm invents his own vocabulary. His works in progress are named “Architextures”, “Aalu”, “Mantines”, “L’Irréductible”, so as to distance himself from scientific postulates and state the singular value of his interpretation of reality.

Effects: The experiments carried out create a field of knowledge that materialise itself in various forms: objects, shows, sculptures, performances, acts… These “monstrations”, as a result of the accumulated researches represent the many facets of a landscape in perpetual evolution that has been obstinately developed over the past 15 years.

Attraction is an original cartography of a planet without places.

It forms a track with indefinite borders, a drawing that reveals each time a new side of the reality.

Attraction is neither a dogma nor a truth. It is an artistic project which ontological quest is to reach the full accomplishment of its madness…