Gaëlle Choisne

Born in: 1985
From: Cherbourg, France
Lives and works: Paris, France
Represented by: Air de Paris
Website: http://www.gaellechoisne.com/

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Biography

Drawing from her Haitian and French heritage, histories and stories of racism, colonialism, and gender-based violence, Gaëlle Choisne has built an artistic practice that can be considered as impactful. Influences from her theater studies can be found within her works, whose storytelling strives to reach its viewers. Creating pieces of the story through sculpture, video, and installation, the artist ties it all together under the banner of memories that tie us with reused and recycled objects.

Gaëlle Choisne inscribes herself in the lineage of committed figures in the fight against racism and for the retelling of history as one that does not ignore the horrors inflicted by those who wrote it in the past. We can thus find the impact that intellectuals such as Aimé Césaire grounded in the 20th century come to life in her artworks.

As far as voices of racialised peoples go, they had little to no place in the public eye, a fact that Choisne nuances in her work. In the past, the representations such as that of Haitian acrobat and art model Joseph by Théodore Géricault in the early 19th century, were very few and far between.

Career highlights

Solo shows

2022, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany: Temple of Love - To Hide
2022, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, France: Monument aux Vivant.e.s
2021, Air de Paris, Romainville, France: Mondes Subtiles
2020, MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain & Lattara Archaeological Site - Henri Prades Museum: Défixion, Gaëlle Choisne
2015, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Canada: C R I C C R A C

Group shows

2022, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France: Des corps, des écritures
2022, HKW, Berlin, Germany: Ceremony (Burial on an Undead World)
2020, National Museum of Art Kyoto, Japan: Inférieur 2020
2020, MAACAL - Musée d’Art contemporain africain Al-Maaden, Marrakesh, Morocco: Have you seen a horizon lately
2020, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey: Crystal Clear (Travels in Sustainable Exhibition Making)