ALEXANDRE CALLAY

Alexandre Callay is a French multimedia artist and curator. With a nebulous body of work that incorporates but is not limited to filmmaking, photography and performance, Callay’s practice is best understood in terms of the collection, exchange and circulation of information across media platforms. Particularly fascinated with interaction, Callay’s works use the internet and international postal services in order to shrink concepts of time and space by way of information flow. In his recent project ‘There Will Be Stories’, Callay offers participants the opportunity to send short audio messages to recipients of their choice. After being recorded onto memory chips, the messages are encased inside layers of decorative packaging and sent around the world. Callay’s interventions emphasise the significance of small gestures and their capacity to interrupt or alter experience, even in subtle or unacknowledged ways.