Through his drawings, installations and sculptures, Nicolas Daubanes often takes places of confinement or constraint as a starting point to demonstrate how attempts to impose order and coercion on human expression ultimately fuel ingenuity and creativity. ‘‘In his installations, the artist focuses on narratives of transgression, especially those recounting riots against sanctioned injustices in the interest of easing individual and collective suffering. Daubanes reduces building materials which seem lasting and impermeable – like concrete and iron – to broken fragments and delicate fillings. He uses these raw elements to create drawings, sculptures, or fleeting situations which symbolize both the vulnerability of the human activity and the desire for freedom’’. (Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, curators of the 16th contemporary art Lyon Biennial).