Joy Charpentier

Born in Thiais (94), on 04/23/1991. Lives and works in Montpellier.

Member of the traveling community. Was raised in a caravan in the gypsy community, his family traveled from fairs in evangelical convoys. A multidisciplinary artist, his research reflects the confrontation of this background and queer identity with normative standards.
His practice is a tool for deconstructing phenomena of violence: By means of the reappropriation of stereotypes or diversion, his work aims to overturn, reevaluate or reinvest fields of representation. He experiments with different mediums, from drawing to performance or installation, with forms that are often absurd, trashy, kitsch, or in bad taste. Taking up the figure of the jester or the phenomenon of carnival, humor is used in its political and social dimension, and becomes a material of struggle, revealing the reality that re-examines the rules of the game.
Settled in Sete in 2002. With a baccalaureate (Art& literature) obtained, entered the Villa Arson in Nice in 2010, then the ENSA Bourges in 2012. Obtained the DNSEP at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Bourges in 2017.
Co-founded the artist collective “Groupe Vengeance” in the same year.
Since then, has participated in several group exhibitions in institutions in France and Europe: 2019: Palais de Tokyo. 2021. Mo.Co. . Galerie Alarcon Criado: 2020-2022, Kunstverein 2020-2021, Mo.Co panacée, Montpellier, IVAM, Valencia and Galerie The Worm, aberdeenen 2023.

Also contributed to several publications:

edition Fabula: 2019. Revue Concreta: 2020, Jaune Pisse: 2020-2022.
Resident performer of the burlesque cabaret CrazyMorse in Montpellier since 2021.
Teaches screen printing in Nimes since 2023.