Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Cléda's Chairs
12 Feb - 01 May 2011
Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Ausstellungsansicht Cléda's Chairs
Foto: Philipp Ottendörfer
© Bielefelder Kunstverein
Ausstellungsansicht Cléda's Chairs
Foto: Philipp Ottendörfer
© Bielefelder Kunstverein
Over the last few years, Lili Reynaud-Dewar (*1975, lives and works in Paris) has been developing a complex oeuvre, which revolves consistently around the concept of cultural identity. Her works draw on her own family history to focus on the juxtaposition of individual perspectives and social stereotypes. Time and time again, she illustrates this aspect by means of the development of various 20th century avant-garde movements and sub-cultures. These develop a different sort of aesthetic consciousness and new forms of resistance at a distance from existing rules and norms. That is why Reynaud-Dewar is also keenly interested in using her works to investigate that eccentricity which determines this sort of thinking, doing and acting, as well as making it possible in the first place.
For her installations and audiovisual performances, the artist takes her own designs for stage sets, her own paintings and costume designs to create spaces as scenarios. As she borrows formally from film, theatre and pop music, her works often culminate in a multiplicity that is allegorical and partially archaic. Reynaud-Dewar works amid the tension between reality and fiction. Stories, myths and symbols are just as much the subject as the means of pursuing her artistic quests.
The exhibition in the Bielefelder Kunstverein sites Lili Reynaud-Dewar’s most recent work, »Cléda’s Chairs« in the centre of the presentation. In the form of large-format paintings, objects and videos it does, among other things, make reference to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s sketches about 1970’s Africa. It is the first solo exhibition by the French artist in a German institution.
Lili Reynaud-Dewar lives and works in Paris. Last year her works have been shown in solo exhibitions such as »Antitheater« (Frac Champagne Ardennes, Reims) and »Interprétation« (Kunsthalle Basel). Beside she has contributed to numerous international group exhibitions, such as »The Morality Series« (Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2010), »Elles@centrepompidou« (Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2009), »Kehraus-Abschied von stabilen Wänden« (Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, 2009) or »When Things Cast No Shadow« (5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, 2008).
A brochure of 28 pages will be published (German/English).
Curator: Thomas Thiel
For her installations and audiovisual performances, the artist takes her own designs for stage sets, her own paintings and costume designs to create spaces as scenarios. As she borrows formally from film, theatre and pop music, her works often culminate in a multiplicity that is allegorical and partially archaic. Reynaud-Dewar works amid the tension between reality and fiction. Stories, myths and symbols are just as much the subject as the means of pursuing her artistic quests.
The exhibition in the Bielefelder Kunstverein sites Lili Reynaud-Dewar’s most recent work, »Cléda’s Chairs« in the centre of the presentation. In the form of large-format paintings, objects and videos it does, among other things, make reference to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s sketches about 1970’s Africa. It is the first solo exhibition by the French artist in a German institution.
Lili Reynaud-Dewar lives and works in Paris. Last year her works have been shown in solo exhibitions such as »Antitheater« (Frac Champagne Ardennes, Reims) and »Interprétation« (Kunsthalle Basel). Beside she has contributed to numerous international group exhibitions, such as »The Morality Series« (Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2010), »Elles@centrepompidou« (Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2009), »Kehraus-Abschied von stabilen Wänden« (Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, 2009) or »When Things Cast No Shadow« (5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, 2008).
A brochure of 28 pages will be published (German/English).
Curator: Thomas Thiel