Lili Reynaud-Dewar

สถานที่: La Rochelle

เกิด: 1975

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Lili Reynaud-Dewar is a French installation and performance artist, born in 1975 in La Rochelle. She currently lives and works in Grenoble and Geneva. Her work has been exhibited in many international surveys, including the 5th Berlin Biennale (2008), the 3rd Paris Triennale (2012), the 12th Lyon Biennale (2013), the 5th Marrakech Biennial (2014), the 56th Venice Biennial (2015), the 31st Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts (2015) and the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016). Her practice includes film, installation, performance, text and sculpture, and is mainly concerned with the "boundaries of biography".

Early Life and Education

Reynaud-Dewar studied ballet with Colette Milner at the Conservatoire de La Rochelle, then Public Law at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. In 2001, she enrolled for a Master in Fine Arts at the Glasgow School of Arts.

Artistic Career

Reynaud-Dewar's first performance in 2005, at the Centre d'art Mira Phalaina in Montreuil involved her Glasgow friend Mary Knox. Since then, she works with her friends, family and students. In 2009, she turned to film and performance as her primary mediums, using them as commentary on racial issues like for example with Black Mariah (2009) and Cleda's Chairs (2010). In 2011, she initiated in her studio her dance video series which she keeps producing to this day. She has investigated the boundaries of biography, and has developed her work around various historical figures of transgression such as Josephine Baker, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Sun Ra, Jean Genet and Guillaume Dustan. She dedicated her Venezia Biennial piece "Small Modest Bad Blood Opera" to the conflict that opposed Guillaume Dustan to Act Up at the end of the 1990s.

• Reynaud-Dewar co-founded, with Dorothée Dupuis and Valérie Chartrain, the art and entertainment feminist publication Petunia in 2009.
• In 2015, she published a collection of her writings "My Epidemic, texts on my work and the work of other artists" with Paraguay Press.
• She has been a professor at Haute École d'Art et de Design in Geneva since 2010.

Reynaud-Dewar is represented by Clearing Gallery in Brussels and New York, and Emanuel Layr in Vienna and Rome. In 2021, she won the 21st edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize. Reynaud-Dewar's work can be found on https://Wikioo.org/@/Lili-Reynaud-Dewar, and her biography is also available on wikipedia. For more information about Lili Reynaud-Dewar's work, you can visit Ferdinand Hodler's Lake of Geneve and Henri Edmond Cross's Cape Layet, Provence.