Rom av.JC

Romain Hurdequint, alias Rom av.JC, has had a skateboard under his feet since he was 14. A passionate curator, he founded the blog The Daily Board in 2011, now a reference, and in 2018 published the anthology Skate Art: From the Object to the Artwork (Cercle d'Art), distributed as far as MoMA and the MET. Having crossed over to the brushes, he reinvents the leisures of Antiquity with a jigsaw, a sander and black acrylic: shaped into jars with Greco-Roman motifs, his worn decks bear witness to an imaginary skateboarding from the days when Lyon was called Lugdunum. Broken, hammered, they resurface like those ancient vases, imperfect but charged with history. A finalist of the Prix d'Art Urbain Paris 2022, he has notably exhibited at the Musée départemental de la Céramique in Lezoux and at the Condition Publique in Roubaix.