Much of Neal Beggs’s work is attached to a specific form of activity: rock-climbing. A former mountaineer, he retains an attitude in his life and art that seeks to invalidate boundaries. Many of his pieces, at times ‘participatory’ for the public, borrow their formal vocabulary from that sport (walls, hand holds, etc.). But the analogy is taken further beyond such literal plastic qualities and boarders of metaphor to new ground, as the artist adapts the principles of his former life to the process of artistic creation.

Based on a text by Guillaume Mansart. 2006

In/visible collection productions’ Frac Lorraine 2006.