Etienne Rey is a French visual artist who lives and works in Marseille.
 Etienne Rey’s work explores the notion of space. The issue is to generate perception displacement. Place and environment, in situ and architecture, are organized for creating spatial structures through movement and increasing points of view. The diverse installations have in common to invite experiences composed of material and immaterial, energies and attractions which involve physical phenomena with light as the main vector. Reflexive transformations take place between perceptions, appropriate to each of us, and the consciousness of our impact. The intention is to produce experiences of space. The artworks reveal the way space organizes itself. Between immaterial installations made by mist and by light and those using materials with optical properties, all the artworks develop perceptive filters of the environment to bring us to question our relation to the reality.
 The Etienne Rey’s approach refers to numerous artists of kinetic art, and also to Minimal Art and Concrete Art. The main references are Julio Le Parc, François Morellet, Dan Graham, Larry Bell, Anish Kapoor, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sol LeWitt, Anthony McCall, Felice Varini.