Biography(ies)

Mathilde Lavenne was born in 1982 in France. After studying philosophy and Hispanic-American cultures, she turned to the art of making glass, drawing and animation at the HEAR, Haute école des arts du Rhin in Strasbourg, and developed an awareness of materials in video art, cinema, digital art and sound at the Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains. She has done several residencies in France and abroad, notably at the Académie de France in Madrid and the Casa de Velázquez. In residence at the Cité internationale des arts de Paris, she collaborated in 2020 with Mexican composer Diana Syrse on a commission from National Sawdust for the Beth Morrison Project in New York. Her work has received awards and distinctions such as the Golden Nica in “computer animation” at the Ars Electronica festival in Austria in 2018, the best short film award at the Ann Arbor festival in the United States and the contemporary talent award of the François Schneider Foundation in Wattwiller in 2015.

MATHILDE LAVENNE – RESEARCH RESIDENCY

MATHILDE LAVENNE

19.10 — 03.11 / 2022

MATHILDE LAVENNE – RESEARCH RESIDENCY

The French artist Mathilde Lavenne is in residence in our studio. In collaboration with the Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie and Diaphane, she will present her digital project in 2023 in Quebec and in France.

DARK STARS

Dark Stars is a multi-scaled project conceived as an atlas of forms created around light and variations of the luminous spectrum. It explores issues related to animation, cinema and photography, and more broadly visualization tools, through the interaction of “time, light and matter” on fossil and astrophysical objects. Moreover, it addresses the notions of long time and memory to bring science and art into dialogue on issues inspired by a new attention to the living.

The project is named after a natural nuclear explosion first observed on photographic plates in 1937 by Marietta Blau, a forgotten Austrian Nobel Prize-winning physicist. It connects the story of the discovery of radioactivity with the exploration of cosmic radiation that originates from stars using new spectrographic visualization tools.

Photo credit : Dark_Stars_2022-©MathildeLavenne – collaboration with Mathieu Thoury and Pierre Guériau – Ipanema – Synchrotron