Michel François, born in 1956 in Saint-Trond (Belgium). He lives and works in Brussels.

Michel François is a conceptual artist who makes sculptures, videos, photographs, printed matter, paintings and installations. He uses an economy of means to transform seemingly uncomplicated objects and materials, or traces of past events, into deeply resonant carriers of meaning.
He bases his practise on the tension of materials, on the resulting balances and the contaminations of plastic forms, on a fictitious loss of control always calculated yet unpredictable.

He claims no signature style but creates a web of shifting connections between his works and in each different exhibition. His work can be seen as exploration of cause and effect, and the ways in which simple gestures can change the status of an object or have important consequences.
Often the works have been developed and assembled because of their formal and conceptual affinities. In a way or in many others, sculptures, images and drawings are proposing forms of appearance and disappearance, where the material looks like taken in an expansion or contraction movement. Things are there, but in a sort of fragile status, just before their disappearance or their dispersion. It seems that things are emerging or expanding here and now.