Yann Thomas

Born in 1969, lives and works in Paris and New York.

Yann Toma, an artist and researcher, is an artist-observer residing at the UN permanently. He places his work and reflection at the frontier of artistic and civic expression. He puts it in the context of current political and media events. Both artist and life president of the Ouest-Lumière company, he has been developing the Energie Artistique (EA) concept since 1991. Since 1991, he has reinvested the reactivated memory of the former Ouest-Lumière electricity company to create a symbolic network dedicated to producing and disseminating artistic energy. He is involved in issues of climate change and energy, in which the artist engages in processes of revelation and takes a stand with his body, making contact with certain hidden and open senses that the public itself can pick up on but which it continually loses sight of as a result of its conditioning, notably by failing to perceive the masses of natural influxes that ensure our relationship with nature. He is also a co-founder of the Maximalism movement.

His works, held in prestigious collections such as the Centre Pompidou and the Neuflize’s Bank, question the notion of energy, the impact of art on society, and the importance of ethics. His projects involve a shared production process, with the public playing a crucial role in generating the artwork and redistributing energy between artist and viewer.