Gaëlle Choisne
Gaëlle Choisne - Credit Mercedes Klausner 2024
Of Haitian mother and Breton father, Gaëlle Choisne is a visual artist, sculptor, and photographer; she draws from her travels the materials that make up her installations and films. Mercantile exoticism, literary imaginations, and beliefs are the themes of a dynamic, generous, and social body of work. She was recently nominated for the 2024 Marcel Duchamp Prize and will participate in the upcoming Toronto and Gwangju Biennales.
This artistic journey prompted me to question the common thread guiding my decisions, and ultimately, I decided to follow my heart on this path intertwining friendships, favorites, memory, and history.
So, I will start with the gallery I have been working with for a few years now, Air de Paris, which has nothing left to prove regarding its historicity. It is about friendship when Rob Pruitt invites Lizzi Bougatsos.
Then, I invite you to visit Alexis Lartigue Fine Art gallery, featuring an exhibition by Simon Hantaï, an artist whose folding gestures and painting deeply resonate with me.
Continuing with my friendships, I would mention Galerie Ceysson et Bénétière, showcasing artist Tomona Matsukawa, a hyperrealist painter whose characters’ hands lead a dance of love and friendship amid the tension of her acidic color palette.
Scott Covert at Galerie Allen speaks of love, death, and memory with his “Monuments paintings” paying tribute to those who died from AIDS.
Continuing on the themes of death and memory, I was truly moved by the drawing style of Palestinian artist Aysha E Arar at Dvir Gallery. The exhibition’s title resonates with me: “Do not cut my wings, I have the right to fly.” The hysteria of the drawing’s line on “Kafan” (funeral shrouds in Islam), fragile as it may be, questions our ability to fly on our own wings despite a low sky.
Chagall’s love birds remind me of how much I love this painter because my father loves him too, evoking joyful memories of my childhood, at Galerie Larock-Granoff.
I also appreciate another cheerful and confusing chronicle of a world between the living and the inanimate at Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, presenting the carefree Martin Parr. He photographs with a certain irony both inanimate mannequins and iconic female figures.
Lita Cerqueira is a remarkable female artistic figure, celebrating the Black community in Brazil. This time, it is behind the camera that a talented woman takes us into Brazilian resilience and strong energy, at Ricardo Fernandes‘ gallery.
In the spirit of honoring spirits, living or dead, Galerie Vallois hosts Beninese totems that remind us of the necessity of connection, community, and the links between the visible and invisible.
The exhibition “Dragclown Affairs” draws a smile at Galerie Natalie Seroussi with this collective exhibition intensively and humorously evoking the importance of the queer community and solidarity. Michael Ray Charles at Templon gallery marks with his representations of African-American black identity, portraits with red noses that exalt a powerful critique.
The world of invisibilities intersects with the world of exhibition. Yet another encounter between different modes of being that touches me, that of nature and humans, with Daniel Steegman Mangrané’s exhibition presented at Mendes Wood DM and at Esther Schipper.
Gaëlle Choisne has presented her sculptural installations on various occasions: a solo exhibition at La Centrale Powerhouse gallery in Montreal, Untilthen gallery in Paris, Zacheta in Warsaw, The Mistake Room in Los Angeles. She has participated in several residencies in France and abroad: OPTICA and Art3 Valence in Montreal, Cité internationale des arts in Paris, Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, and the Atelier Van Lieshout residency. She also participated in the 2015 International Biennial of Havana and the Lyon International Biennial, and in 2017 in the Sharjah Biennial, Beirut Tamawuj Act II, and the Curitiba Biennial in Brazil. She has had the opportunity to exhibit her work in notable institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon, MAMO in Le Corbusier’s Cité radieuse, the Fabre Museum in Montpellier, the CAFA Museum in Beijing, and the Pera Museum in Istanbul.
Ses recommandations
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Air de Paris
Rob Pruitt x Lizzi Bougatsos Etats-Unis
"Help Me Lift You Up"
CARTE BLANCHE
- Carte blanche
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Alexis Lartigue Fine Art
Simon Hantaï , Hongrie
"Peintures de 1950 à 1981"
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Galerie Allen
Scott Covert , Etats-Unis
"The Dead Supreme" Netherlands
- Photographie
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Dvir Gallery
Aysha E Arar , Palestine
"There was love, there was death and there was you"
- Dessin
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Galerie Larock-Granoff
Marc Chagall , France
"Chagall, un rêve fabuleux"
- Dessin
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Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière
Martin Parr , Royaume-Uni
"Fashion Faux Parr" France
- Photographie
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Galerie Natalie Seroussi
Exposition collective
"Dragclown Affairs "
CARTE BLANCHE
- Carte blanche
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Mendes Wood DM
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané , Espagne
"La pensée férale"
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Esther Schipper
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané , Espagne
"La pensée férale"