Olivier Bémer FR
Don’t feed the troll
video and sculptural installation
Exhibition Disobedience in the Digital Age
From October 23 to December 13, 2026
From Wednesday to Sunday, 2pm to 7pm
La Belle de Mai Open Space (R4)
Marseille
Exhibition Let’s Stand Up and Resist!
September 10 through November 13, 2026
Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Fernand Léger Art Center
Port de Bouc
Credits
A co-production of the Fernand Léger Art Center in Port de Bouc, in collaboration with CHRONIQUES—the Regional Center for Digital Environment Creation—and the PACA Region, for the Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques, as part of the CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS platform.
Supported by: Fondation des Artistes.
Do Not Feed the Troll is a video installation inspired by the working-class wig: the repurposing of time and work materials to create personal objects. While working as a temporary employee in a logistics warehouse, Olivier Bémer secretly films his work with a hidden camera and covertly crafts small hybrid figures. Scanned and then animated in 3D, these figures intrude into the film, gradually disrupting reality.
Somewhere between documentary and symbolic sabotage, *Do Not Feed the Troll* revives the tradition of the wig through a new form of manual labor, seeking to slow things down, disrupt the status quo, and resist from within through confusion, play, and fiction.
Olivier Bémer
Olivier Bémer was born in Paris in 1989, where he lives and works. Through films, installations, objects, and prints, her work explores our relationship with technology as a means of representation and depicts a distorted reality in which archetypes simulate but fail to represent. Form is thus diverted from its function, and so is the learning machine. Olivier Bémer is a graduate of ECAL, the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and the Fresnoy National Studio. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions—including at the Emerige Foundation, the Fiminco Foundation, the CWB Paris, and the Pernod Ricard Foundation—as well as in solo exhibitions, notably at the Weiss Endowment Fund in Paris. His work has also been screened at film festivals, including the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
