" KILL THEM ALL ! " Installation by BIBI Exhibition from 16th September to 5th October 2008 BIBI celebrates the beginning of hunting at the Espace Beaurepaire with his installation " Kill them All ! " BIBI's trophies misapprpriate symbols of urban space and question our ecologically correct era. Inventor of urban hunting, in 2001 at the Rivoli squat, BIBI captures traffic cones at the heart of the towns. BIBI liberates a hidden animalistic side from these contemporary urban objects, invisible by dint of being everyday objects. Nature, removed and wrapped in cotton wool in areas disconnected from everyday life, reappears through the asphalt in Paris.      Hunter's shadow shows through behind the animal      ©BIBI Stuffed, primed, staged, each trophy attributes a legend: a sign refers to the history of its hunt, like this beautiful specimen: "DANNY, toothless tiger, shot by BIBI at the Sorbonne". The trophies are reminiscent of people that we all recognise or imagine. Don't get it wrong: systematic recuperation of plastic since 1992, Millau in 2000, Festival du vent in 2003, BIBI doesn't entertain the idea of the surge of recycling and its banality. A completely inoffensive massacre which questions our ecologically correct era. BIBI is a pioneer of alternative contemporary art. BIBI is a visual "plastic" artist in the literal sense. He uses plastic matter in its etymological sense (lat. plasticus, gr. plastikos "relative to modelling ") and gives plastic the place that it deserves as the 6th element. Born in 1964 in Tours, he lives and works in Marseille. He first stuffed animals at the age of 10. As a young amateur palaeontologist, he put together his first curiosity cabinet by hunting around in the Touraine "faluns" every weekend. No art school, but an orthopaedics diploma in 1984, allowed him to experiment with thermoformed plastic matter and its unusual similarities to the human body (artificial limbs and orthotics). BIBI then turned towards a more fun technique: "thermo-pleasure". He lives and works successively in Egypt, Paris, Nimes and Sète where he has created dozens of luminous installations (schools of fish), exhibitions and performances from 1992 to 2004, including the Rivoli squat façade in Paris which took 3 years to evolve. Since 1992, BIBI researches the hidden shapes - animal as well as hominoid - that the designers who instigated these objects had in the back of their minds. Today BIBI the chairman and the only member of MEAD -Movement for the Extermination of Endangered Animals- has only one motto left: "Kill Them All !" Espace Beaurepaire - 28 rue Beaurepaire - 75010 Paris (Métro République) Open everyday from Tuesday 16th september to Sunday 5th october from 12 a.m. until 8 p.m. Late-night opening until 10 p.m. on Fridays. Information : Sandrine Lefort at + 33 (0)6 80 15 34 91 or + 33 (0)1 42 45 59 64 Press Contact : Karen Jouve - Agence Tagada at + 33 (0)6 13 01 55 15 or contact@agence-tagada.com To upload the press kit