Xavier Boyer first worked as an assistant alongside resident and guest composers at Le GRAME, national institute for music creation. Le GRAME and its Musique en scène festival gave him the opportunity to work for Peter Eötvös, Heiner Goebbels, Qigang Chen, Xu Yi…
Xavier Boyer then became a sound engineer for the Lyon Opera House, where he took part to numerous creations (Kaija Saariaho, Philippe Boesmans, Thierry Escaich, Pascal Dusapin, Alexander Raskatov, Michael Levinas, Michèle Reverdy, Jérôme Combier ...)
This was also the time for his first photographic project : Et pourtant Elle danse. This six years long work was exhibited at the Lyon Opera house in 2006. From 2003 to 2013, Xavier Boyer explored Yuval Pick’s work, picturing his raising dance company.
He works on personal projects with videographers (Je crois que j’ai dormi 2014-), plastic artists (Inuit 2011-12), musicians and comedians (La Vie nue 2022-), and continues with his photographic projects : Paul (2016) is an implicit portrait of a farmer of his friends ; Jazz (2018) emphasises spontaneous theatrical places that urban nightlights stage ; De Pierre et d’arbres (2023) is an echo game between mineral textures and
