Pierre Creton

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Pierre Creton est artiste et jardinier, ses divers emplois comme apiculteur ou vacher l’ont mené à réaliser des films sur le rapport maître/esclave ou sur les relations que nous entretenons avec l’animal. Il est l’auteur d’une quarantaine de films. Il vit et travaille en Normandie dans le Pays de Caux, territoire qu’il ne cesse d’appréhender et de filmer : « Il y dessine, récolte du miel, cultive son jardin. Le temps de l’art et celui de la vie ne font qu’un. Travail, rencontres, lectures suscitent des films et des dessins qui à leur tour sculptent l’existence, l’ouvrent à des expériences, des territoires qui donnent lieu à d’autres films, d’autres dessins. Travailler en artiste, c’est habiter un monde rendu vivable par l’invention de communautés de pensées, de désirs et d’amitiés, où se côtoient paysans, écrivains et cinéastes, les vivants et les morts, le proche et le lointain. »  __ Cyril Neyrat


Pierre Creton is an artist and gardener, his various jobs as a beekeeper or cowherd have led him to make films on the master/slave relationship or on the relationships we have with animals. He is the author of around forties films.
He lives and works in Normandy in the Pays de Caux, a territory that he never ceases to explore and film: “He draws there, collects honey, cultivates his garden. The time of art and that of life are one. Work, meetings, readings give rise to films and drawings which in turn sculpt existence, opening it to experiences, territories which give rise to other films, other drawings. To work as an artist is to inhabit a world made livable by the invention of communities of thoughts, desires and friendships, where peasants, writers and filmmakers, the living and the dead, the near and the far, come together. » __ Cyril Neyrat

Pierre Creton est représenté par la galerie Salle Principale, Paris (France)

current & upcoming exhibitions

28.06.2026 — 01.11.2026
Alors nous irons trouver la couleur ailleurs (cur. Arnaud Dubois) | Centre international d’art et du paysage, Île de Vassivière, Vassivière, France

11.04.2026 — 28.06.2026
L’amour aurait suffit à Nietzsche (cur. Claire Le Restif) | Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – LE CRÉDAC | Ivry-sur-Seine, France (solo)

26.02.2026 — 11.03.2026
Still Life Primavera, Doc Fortnight 2026 official selection, MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media | MoMA, Manhattan, NY, US

28.11.2025 — 16.12.2025
Screening of the film Prospect Cottage by Pierre Creton as part of the Derek Jarman Retrospective | mk2 bibliothèque x Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

21-26.10.2025
Art Basel Paris — main sector booth Salle Principale | Grand Palais, Paris, France

06.2025
Erotic Nature: The Films of Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré, U.S. retrospective | BAM Film 2025, Brooklyn, NY, US

selected works

Pierre Creton - salle principale

Botanical plates | 2002
sewing on paper
42 x 29,7 cm
signed by artist

Sewing is used here symbolically as a means of repair, but also as a montage technique between the plant world and the human. The images are often taken from the family library: nature (visible) or pornography (hidden).

Pierre Creton - salle principale

Secteur 545 | 2004
film
110 mins
ed. 5 + 2 a.p.

Pierre Creton - salle principale

Traces | 1990
lamb brains, glue, tissue paper and Arches paper
50 x 33 cm
signed by artist

At the same time as I was becoming vegetarian, I was using meat and blood for my sculptures and drawings. I bought lamb brains from seven different butchers (I’m the son of a butcher) and put them through a press. As a result, I was banned from the school’s engraving workshop.