Conversation with Gwendoline Robin, around installation and performance art
Aula Magna da FBAUP, 3º feira, 9 de Abril de 2024 17 h
Gwendoline Robin is a Belgian visual and performance artist.
She lives and works in Brussels.
Gwendoline Robin’s work revolves around installation, performance and video. Fire and explosives, glass, earth, water and stones are all elements she confronts in ephemeral actions that seem to densify time and space.
Since 2005, G. Robin has been developing her performance work more intensively. She has carved out a unique place for herself in the Brussels, Belgian and international contemporary art scene, presenting her performances at international performance and dance festivals in Europe, Canada, Chile, Australia and Asia. She has taken part on several occasions in the Trouble festival, the Biennale de Danse de Charleroi-danse and the Kunstenfestivalsdesarts in Brussels. She will also present her performances at Scotland’s International Festival of Live Arts at the Tramway in Glasgow, The Future of Imagination5 in Singapore, ANTI Festival in Kuopio, ART ACTION in Montreal, La Muga Caula, les Escaules in Spain, Accion10MAD in Madrid, MINTO : LIVE, Sydney Festival at the Campbelltown Arts Centre, Fabrika Voxa at the Espace Multimédia Gantner in Bourogne, Short Theatre Festival in Rome, Festival International des arts de Bordeaux, Les Inaccoutumés at the Ménagerie de Verre in Paris, Dansfabrik Festival in Brest, FIMP’20 Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto, Festival Lisboa Soa in Lisbon.
She has also collaborated with artists from other disciplines: Garrett List, Stéphane Monteiro and Vincent Martial for music, Karin Vyncke, Pierre Droulers, Boris Charmatz, Louise Vanneste and Gaëlle Bourges for dance, and Hervé Caps for scientific research.
In 2017, she was invited by the SACD to create a duet with French choreographer Gaëlle Bourges for Les Sujets à Vif, at the Avignon Festival.
Over time and through her collaborations, the desire to weave her performative vocabulary into a structure that is more open to multidisciplinarity has become more and more present, prompting her to think of spaces as active devices that split between performance and visual installation.
These performance-activated installations will be exhibited at the Centre d’Art Le Lieu in Quebec City, the Centre d’art Micro-Onde de L’Onde in Vélizy, the Les Orages exhibition at ISELP in Brussels, and the La vie Matérielle exhibition at La Centrale for comtemporary art in Brussels, the Bachelard contemporain exhibition at the FAB agnes b in Paris, the Symbiosium exhibition at the Fondation Fiminco in Romainville, the Underneath the visible exhibition at the Montoro12 Gallery in Brussels and at La Semaine du Son in Brussels.
Gwendoline Robin teaches visual practice (recherches plastiques) and performance art at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Tournai and at ESA Le 75 in Brussels.
Gwendoline Robin has been accompanied by Grand Studio since 2012 and is supported by Wallonie-Bruxelles International.
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