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Xavier Roy’s practice interrogates the relationship between performers and audiences, aiming to transform or reconfigure dichotomies of object and subject, animal and human, machine and human, nature and culture, public and private, formal and informal. Part of Le Roy’s research takes the form of works created specifically for gallery settings: production (2010-2911) developed with Marten Spangberg as part of the exhibition MOVE: Choreographing You; Rétrospective, produced for the Fondation Antoni Tapiès in Barcelona (2012); Untitled (2012) for the exhibition 12 Rooms, Titre Provisoire, 2015 created in Sydney for the John Kaldor Public Art Project, and For The Unfaithful Replica in collaboration with Scarlet Yu at CA2M in Madrid, 2016.

Following studies in molecular biology, Le Roy has been working as an artist since 1991. Solo pieces, beginning in 1994, include Self Unfinished (1998), Produit de Circonstances (1999), Giszelle (2001) in collaboration with Eszter Salamon, Le Sacre du Printemps (2007), Produit d’autres circonstances (2009) and Sans titre (2014). He participated in Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2017, in Venice Dance Biennale and at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City in 2018, and was the subject of a “portrait” at the Festival d’automne in Paris in the same year. In 2019 he was featured at Hamburger Bahnhof and at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.