Born in Amiens in 1947, Joël Hubaut lives and works in Réville (Manche, France). He teaches at the School of Fine Arts of Caen. He started his artistic career in the late '60s, inspired by W.S. Burroughs's writing, Eric Satie's music, actionnism, Pop Art and the theoretical reflections of the B.M.P.T. collective. It is difficult to put Joël Hubaut in a category. Placing the epidemic and contamination (as a premonitory event) at the center of his reflection on art and society, his recourse to parody and derision can take a truly tragic dimension. “For the last 30 years, as a drawner, a painter, a video-maker, a singer, a writer and a teacher, Hubaut has been at the vanguard of the crossing-arts phenomenon in French contemporary art. On the road with Satie, Duchamp, Beuys, Filliou, Rabelais, Artaud and many more, Hubaut is a burlesque artist of a new kind, entirely devoted to life.” - Michel Giroud