RÉMI GIRARD
PARKOUR ATHLETE
URBAN AERIALIST
ARTIST

"Hors Cadre is our meeting with personalities who inspire us and move the lines in their field.
For this new series of portraits, we went to meet bold people, directly in their universe.
We were seduced by their passion, their personalities and their "outside the box" state of mind.

Rémi Girard is much more than an athlete, he is an artist. In fact, that is the term he uses in his Instagram bio: Artist.
And indeed, to see him twirling in the streets or on the roofs of Marseille is as much an artistic practice as a sport. His technical prowess is breathtaking and the laws of attraction do not seem to apply to him.  

Rémi is an exceptional self-taught man. At a very young age, with his friends, he began to roam the city, performing acrobatics, using urban furniture and natural obstacles to get around. Without wanting to, he discovered Parkour, this discipline born in France at the end of the 80s. A discipline that can be practiced anywhere, without equipment. The body as the only tool, movement as the only engine. This passion became his profession. He will be an acrobat, a free-runner, an acrobat or a circus artist. 

Movement holds a central place in his life. Moving, advancing, jumping, this is what allows him to feel free and alive every day.  Rémi has the chance to see the world from another angle than ours, literally and figuratively. 
And there is poetry in his freedom and his vision of life. He is definitely an artist.