Brad Downey's work is inseparable from public space. For the past fifteen years, this American artist, who lives in Berlin, has been making interventions that hijack urban objects and furniture in a playful, disillusioned or grating way. His work is mainly based on the role of the individual in the city and his physical or dreamlike construction. He plays with street objects in an unconventional way to reorganize them and give them a new (non)meaning. His creations live at the rhythm of the environment in which they are created and can therefore remain in place for only a few minutes. For his work in Besançon, Brad Downey adds two signs to create the word depressed in a nod to the rarely cheery front pages of newspapers.
Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”, June 2015