ROD and the Domestic Partner French, b. 1977

• In armament, a cluster bomb is an aerial bomb of simple design that explodes before reaching its target, scattering thousands of shrapnel that spread in random or precise directions, depending on the wanted effect. 

In Art, the sharp manipulator of this bomb is ROD.

• It was in Thailand that Rod experimented with the art of "Fragmentation". In constant search of living and dead substances, Rod practices coming together to weave stories through his spectacular installations. His wall sculptures take on the appearance of sometimes dense, sometimes minimalist patchworks, leaving neither the eye nor the heart indifferent.

• The process of Fragmentation gives ROD many possibilities to create, taking into consideration of art, wall architecture, resin art, design, photography, mixed-media and painting without limit. It is a photographical, graphic, conceptual and intellectual work based on a very simple process. ROD captures, fragments then mixes and gathers several powerful images to recompose a pixilated, structured and excessive whole that invades and takes over the space as well as the mesmerized spectator.

• The final composition, voluminous and aerial, invading, pierced by light, is a reference to the cellular structure; which makes sense since with Fragmentation, ROD dissects and reconstitutes to better denounce them the visions of society or humanity (pain, injustice, famine...) that cause him a physical, gut reaction.