residency: February–July 2016
Lou Masduraud and Antoine Bellini (France/Switzerland)
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Lou Masduraud
- has been formed for 10 years at National Conservatory of Montpellier, and she obtained her DNAP (National Diploma in Visual Art) in 2012 at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts of Lyon and a Master HES SO with honors at the High School of Art and Design in Geneva in 2014. Since she continues her protean work: sound sculptures, installations, performative devices, situation, composition, writing, attitude, intensity, conduction.
- Antoine Bellini
- is a self-taught artist and musician. He has been collaborating with Lou Masduraud since 2012. He is also taking part in the musical project La société étrange.
- Together they showed their works at the Center for Plastic Arts of Saint Fons in 2013, the Palais de Tokyo in 2014, at commun in Geneva for .perf festival, at Le magasin art center (CNAC) in Grenoble 2014, the Kunstmuseum Luzern Switzerland for the swiss performance awards and at the TU theater in Geneva 2015 at La BF15 in Lyon 2016.
- "We want to turn the exhibition space into a place of enhancement of vitality. We create vibrating and singing piece that resonate or oscillate. We take part in our sound installations as performers. We consider these performances as a shift of situation, as a time of presentation (rather than a representation), and an intensification of relations between space, objects and the audiance’s bodies, focusing on the thin limit between subject and object. We use the sound phenomenon as a stimulating plastic element. The exhibition space becomes a vibrating background where we build animist relations with objects and where we lead plays between elastic bodies stimulated by sound. The exhibition space becomes the privileged place where experience and alternate realities are possible if we’re willing to consider the experience as the very meaning of this construction."
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- Project realised during the artists' residency at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art:
- http://living-room.space
This residency was possible thanks to the financial support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the City of Warsaw.
