Craigie Horsfield's work combines film, photography, sound, engraving and drawing. It questions both art and life, the familiar and the extraordinary, the epic and the everyday, the “slow time” of the present that holds traces of the past and begins the time to come. Born in England in 1949, Horsfield worked as a disc jockey in Eastern Europe in the 1970s and moved to London in the 1980s, a decade that saw him become a key figure on the contemporary photography scene. In the 1990s he was a driving force in the development of a social approach to art and of various collective projects. For more than thirty years, Craigie Horsfield has championed the introduction of sound works into the museum and the use of multi-screen projections to create a social space. For this believer in the role of the public, “making a work, be it making the print, looking at it, or its emotional effect, occurs in our shared space, happens in a relational present.” (text: jeu de paume, paris)