Born in Nantes, France, in 1959, Gilles Bruni follows agricultural studies in the middle of the 70s, then experiments painting before starting again studies at the university of Rennes 2 in 1986. He obtains a doctorate of Visual arts in 1997. In parallel he abandons its personal practice for a common field of experimentation with Marc Babarit, in the open air, under name "Landscape Installation". This collaboration B/B (Bruni/Babarit - Babarit/Bruni) begins in 1987 and finishes in 2005.

Gilles Bruni with or without Marc Babarit conducted its field activities in France like abroad (Germany, the USA, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Austria, Venezuela), mainly for residences and orders.

Apart from this singular collaboration, Gilles Bruni continues this contextual work, crossing its questionnement around the landscape with that of the ecology of the place, his inhabitants and their history, privileging collaborations and  partnerships. In its creations he tries to integrate publications into its practice of the site and photography.

My way of thinking my art practice - Undoubtedly for me, ecology raises an ethic of the practice, a way of working and of implying themselves in an environment physic and human. It has forever been the question in this work undertaken during these past years to enhance the value of stricto sensu an ecological genius by aiming at an action in real about the environment invested... Before all ecology was and remains an engine to think a ratio of the world.

I put to my direction the question of a coincidence with the world related to the mode of intervention, space physical, living, and congeneric understanding. From there this practice of landscape installations which cannot be a product detached from its environment, and of its context. I make therefore exist/see/live these relations with the environment which is seen through works and images which sign a type of relation that I have with a place, between the partners, and in some occasions with the inhabitants.

The social range then seems often an opening to the participation and interpretation by the sleeping partner/spectator/actor…

A certain number of principles are illustrated to these relations: adaptation and adoption- loan and return (a question of physical and social duration) install/ equip - action/ reaction (as the capacite to auto formalize the vegetation to answer the environment for example) - suggestion and interpretation (or to give/ to suit). They guide as much as they result from this fieldwork.

So I am particularly interested today by the achievements in urban areas and / or peri-urban areas because they require more explicit involvement and consideration of social, because this work is not only work made in the "nature" in direct reference to the landscape or not.The intervention in public space or social space are always imply with a minimum of negotiation and dialogue, taking on the occasion, the space of the inhabitant is another way of contributing to form of the landscape, to question places but also to carry a critical glance on the ways we manage our spaces in life.