Gaëlle Choisne, young talent from the 2023 mentorship program
Born in 1985, Gaëlle Choisne is a French artist, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Lyon, who joined the prestigious Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in January 2017. In her installations, created at the crossroads of sculpture and photography, she evokes displacement, architecture, the organic, matter and waste. Designated by Lorna Simpson to form the Reiffers Art Initiatives “Mentor and Young Talent“ 2023 duo, Gaëlle Choisne will exhibit her work in an exhibition at the Acacias Art Center during Art Basel Paris. The artist was featured on the cover of Numéro Art 13.
In October 2024, Gaëlle Choisne was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize.
Exhibition view, « Mondes Subtiles » Air de Paris, Romainville
Gaëlle Choisne, 2021
Exhibition view, « Mondes Subtiles » Air de Paris, Romainville
Gaëlle Choisne, 2021
Exhibition view "Blue Lights in the Basement", NıCOLETTı, Londres
Gaëlle Choisne, 2022
Exhibition view "Blue Lights in the Basement", NıCOLETTı, Londres
Gaëlle Choisne, 2022
Exhibition view "Blue Lights in the Basement", NıCOLETTı, Londres
Gaëlle Choisne, 2022
"Quelques vivres pour l’au-delà (la mariée, son couteau, son cygne, une lampe torche et d’autres fleurs) sztuka przetrwania"
Gaëlle Choisne, 2018-2022
Detail "Quelques vivres pour l’au-delà (la mariée, son couteau, son cygne, une lampe torche et d’autres fleurs) sztuka przetrwania"
Gaëlle Choisne, 2018-2022
Exhibition view ‘’2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone,” New Museum, New York
Gaëlle Choisne, 2021
Exhibition view ‘’2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone,” New Museum, New York
Gaëlle Choisne, 2021
Exhibition view ‘’2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone,” New Museum, New York
Gaëlle Choisne, 2021
"Smoking memory_Haitian seller"
Gaëlle Choisne, 2022
"Smoking memory_precarity bed"
Gaëlle Choisne, 2022
"Smoking memory_Animal"
Gaëlle Choisne, 2022
"Conquête et carnaval (bag lady)"
Gaëlle Choisne, 2021
"Emotional Blackmail #2"
Gaëlle Choisne, 2022Biography
In her practice, the heritage of colonialism and, more generally, the question of domination are recurrent. It's a subject that the artist has mastered and carries in her flesh. Born in Normandie to a Haitian mother and a French father, she remembers a childhood that denied her dual culture and mixed race.
The artist considers Haiti to be a shock in itself, for the island is pure contradiction: poor and destitute, it is also resilient and courageous. According to Gaëlle Choisne, the country is both violently beautiful and, for some, sublimely violent. Haiti is a piece of fiction turned into reality. It was the first country in the world to gain independence, in an attempt to be a nation reconstituted by people from different parts of the world, from Africa to Poland. In these works, Gaëlle Choisne attempts to transcribe the natural forces embodied by the spiritual energies emanating from this land.
The Franco-Haitian artist likes to interweave intellectual and artistic disciplines. Song, music, sculpture, videos, debates and voodoo rites... Seven stages, seven moments to recall this tragic story and its links with contemporary times. "To mourn, you have to recognize what has been. France is still struggling to come to terms with colonization, despoilment and their consequences", explains Gaëlle Choisne.