Dominique Petitgand was born in Laxou in 1965, he lives and works in Nancy and Paris.
Since 1992, Dominique Petitgand has been making sound pieces in which the montage and the cut up of voices, noises, elements of music and silences produce a series of micro-universes that over constantly between the reality principle and immersion in dream-like fictions free of context or the sense of time.
He defines his work as “mental landsapes and stories”. He develops his work from recordings of words, rests, breathings, sounds and musics that he records, composes, uses, breaks up and cuts. He makes an inventory of voices, gestures, humors in an obessional way printed by musicality in order to consider a speech, a sate or a lack. He plays on the articulation of components making mental images appear.
In this mental space repetition combines with the emptyness and the instability of identities, places and temporal structures to evoke the very movement whereby memory or thought are constructed or destructed. Through his spoken and melodic sound pieces, Dominique Petitgand offers an original story who belongs to the auditors.
Petitgand’s use of sound places his work in a singular, shifting artistic territory. He presents his works in records, at performances which are rather like listening sessions given outside or in the dark, but also and mainly in the form of sound installations in exhibitions, in museums, art centers or galleries.
Atelier de creation avec Dominique Petitgand
Frac Alsace, Sélestat
May 20, 2023, 14h - 17h
Group show including the work of Dominique Petitgand
Frac Alsace, Sélestat
March 25 - June 4, 2023
Sound installation, from the collection of the CNAP
T2G-Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Gennevilliers
March 8 - 12, 2023
Permanent group show, with Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie
Ehpad Les Blés d’or, Saint-Baldoph
Permanently
Solo show
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Nancy
November 4, 2022 - March 26, 2023
Sound performance on March 16, 2023
Sound Installations
Musée Réattu, Arles
May 20 - October 2, 2022
Solo show
gb agency, Paris
March 26 - May 7, 2022
Group show with works by Dominique Petitgand
Musée Réattu, Arles
November 1, 2021 - April 30, 2022
Solo and group show
Sainte-Noyale Chapel, Noyal-Pontivy
July 2 - September 19, 2021
Group show with works by Dominique Petitgand
Biennale Act(e)s, Prieuré St-Cosme, Tours
May 28 - 30, 2021
Group show with works by Dominique Petitgand
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Online Art Fair
August 28 - September 13, 2020
Group show
gb agency, Paris
From November 30th 2019 to January 11th, 2020
Art Fair
Grand Palais, Paris
October 17 - 20, 2019
Exhibition
Gardens of Versailles
From 22 October to 7 January 2018
Solo Show
gb agency
Show from 2 December 2017 to 17 January 2018
Solo exhibition
7th October - 25th November 2017
Micro Onde, Centre d’art de l’Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay
Sound performance
Le Bal, Paris
10 Mars at 8PM
A solo show by Dominique Petitgand
gb agency
From February 4 to March 19, 2016
Sound piece
Fondation Ricard Paris
February 22, 2016 at 7PM
Sound Installation for 5HP
20 Oct - 1 Nov, 2015
Berges de Seine, Container ZZZ #4, Port de Solférino
A solo project by Dominique Petitgand
gb agency, at Level One
From May 28 to June 13, 2015
Solo show
Centre international d’art et du paysage. Île de Vassivière
March 22 - June 21, 2015
Public listening sessions
Le Royal Pessac / Glob Theatre Bordeaux. Bordeaux
January 30 - February 8
A solo show by Dominique Petitgand
gb agency
From March 23 to May 18, 2013
Sound installation
Jardin des Plantes
Until November 19th, 2012
Solo show
Aubette 1928, Musées de la ville de Strasbourg
May 25 - August 25, 2012
A solo show by Dominique Petitgand
gb agency
From March 17th to April 30th, 2011
Group show
gb agency
7 May to 3 July 2010
group exhibition
gb agency
From February 6 to 14, 2009
A solos show by Dominique Petitgand
gb agency
From December 2, 2006 to January 20, 2007
Group exhibition
gb agency
10 September to 29 October 2005
Solo exhibition
gb agency
8 December to 20 January 2002
Group exhibition
gb agency
17 February to 6 March 2001
Dominique Petitgand
Mes écoutes, 2022
Publication
Sof cover
Publisher: Éditions B42
ISBN: 9782490077663
Graphic design: deValence
Dimensions: 107 x 169mm
Language: French
176 pages
Dominique Petitgand
En-tê-te, 2019
Vinyl 33 RPM
Label Ouvré (Fabrice Laureau aka F/Lor)
Available at the gallery or bandcamp
Face A : En-tê-te 1 - 4’16
Face B : En-tê-te 2 - 3’57
Dominique Petitgand
Les liens invisibles (The invisible links), 2015
Book (with Audio CD)
Booklet of 36 pages, 24x18
Accompanied with Audio CD (22 min)
Text by Dominique Petitgand
Graphic designer: Adrien Aymard
Bilingual French/English
Publisher: Centre international d’art et du paysage, 2015
Price: 10 €
To order : librairie@ciapiledevassiviere.com
Dominique Petitgand
Sommeil léger, 2014
Book
French
Format: 15 x 10 cm
80 pages
Collection Faux raccord
Editions Le Gac Press, co-edition EPCC ESBA TALM site d’Angers
Distribution Les Belles Lettres
ISBN : 978-2-36409-053-8 -
Price : 6 euros
Dominique Petitgand
Mon possible, 2011
Audio CD
2001/2011
Label Ici, d’ailleurs…
Cover picture: Stéphanie Suter / L’Arsenic, Lausanne
Dominique Petitgand
Installations (documents), 2009
Catalogue
French/English
Format: 16,5 x 22 cm
240 pages (color)
Editions MF, abbaye de Maubuisson, FRAC Lorraine, Confort Moderne, FRAC Haute-Normandie, gb agency
Distribution Pollen
ISBN: 978-2-9157-9441-0 / Price: 20 euros
Dominique Petitgand
Les pièces manquantes (The missing pieces), 2007
Catalogue
French/English
Format: 14,5 x 21 cm
24 pages
Publisher: Ecole Municipale des Beaux-Arts/Galerie Manet, Gennevilliers
ISBN: 978-2-9519329-1-3 - Price: 7 euros
Dominique Petitgand
Fatigue, 2006
Audio CD, single
1997/2006
Label Le Confort Moderne / L’Oreille est Hardie, distribution Metamkine
Cover: Dominique Petitgand
Dominique Petitgand
Le bout de la langue, 2006
Audio CD
1992/2006
IDA032, Label Ici, d’ailleurs…
Image cover: Christelle Chalumeaux
Graphic design: Laurent Mantey & Dominique Petitgand
Dominique Petitgand
La gorge sèche (documents), 2004
Catalogue
Format: 14,5 x 21 cm
28 pages
Publisher association “à table !”, Boulogne-sur-Mer
Not for sale
Transcriptions by Dominique Petitgand
Text by Guillaume Désanges
Sketchs by Amélie Codugnella
Dominique Petitgand
Le son du tonneau, 2004
Vinyl 45 T
2001/2004
Publication Circuit, Lausanne, distribution Metamkine
Mastering F/Lor
Face A : Le son du tonneau - 3’36
Face B : Le son du tonneau (musique seule) - 3’30
Dominique Petitgand
Notes, voix, entretiens (Notes, voices, interviews), 2003
Catalogue
French/English
Format: 18 x 24 cm
128 pages
Co-publishers: Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers – École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Distribution Paris Musées
ISBN: 2-84056-126-3 - Price: 18 euros
Dominique Petitgand
Etat liquide (version longue), 2002
Audio CD, single
2001/2002
in situ, Biennale d’art contemporain d’Enghien-les-Bains, distribution Metamkine
Cover: Dominique Petitgand
Dominique Petitgand
Le point de côté, 2002
Audio CD
2001/2002
IDA019, Label Ici, d’ailleurs…
Image cover: Grégoire Alexandre
Graphic design: Thomas Lélu & Dominique Petitgand
Dominique Petitgand
Textes/sons (Texts/sounds), 2001
Catalogue
French/English
Format: 16,5 x 22 cm
40 pages (+ Audio CD)
Publisher gb agency
Not for sale
Dominique Petitgand
Rez-de-chaussée, 2000
Audio CD
IDA017, Label Ici, d’ailleurs…, BNA / BBOT
Cover: Speculoos & Dominique Petitgand
Dominique Petitgand
Le sens de la mesure, 1999
Audio CD
1994/1999
IDA009, Label Ici, d’ailleurs…
Cover: Claude Lévêque
Dominique Petitgand
La journée, 1998
Audio CD, single
1994/1998
Sous-entendus Productions, distribution Metamkine
Cover: Dominique Petitgand
Dominique Petitgand
10 petites compositions familiales, 1996
Audio CD, mini CD
1993/1996
MKCD021, Metamkine, distribution Metamkine
Cover: Christophe Auger
Dominique Petitgand
11 petites compositions familiales, 1995
Audio CD, mini CD
1992/1995
STmCDOO6, Staalplaat
Pochette : Yvonne Willems