INTERVIEW
A residency in Montmartre, at the Cité internationale des arts, how is it?
"Actually, it's quite unreal. Living on top of a hill overlooking Paris, in the middle of a hidden garden with a special atmosphere, you quickly feel very lucky to be there.
The configuration of the premises and the residence has made it very easy to exchange with the other artists, some of whom I now count among my friends, and with whom we have many conversations, often over coffee or a pastis."
What are your current projects?
"At the moment, I am working on several projects at the same time.
I am continuing my experimental and sculptural work, for example, by taking an interest in the circulation of electric current in a gold thread embroidery, in the distillation of cigüe from the city's gardens, or in producing functional neon lights from crystal waste.
The exhibition Bad Girls Do It Well was also the opportunity to present the first essays related to my research on bismuth crystallization or Fitzroy's barometer system, as well as the beginning of a collaboration with Rebecca Topakian, resident of workshop G1."
BIOGRAPHY
"Sabotage considered as one of the fine arts.
During her studies at Villa Arson, Jeanne Berbinau Aubry incorporated a varied series of microknowledge in chemistry, biology, physics, etc. This appetite for knowledge was not carried this way by a pure desire for science, a desire to contemplate some celestial ideas outside the world, but by the almost inverse obsession to derail all things in his direct surroundings. His practice is the closest to a systematized sabotage (aesthetic) enterprise. Jeanne Berbinau Aubry's interest in electrical circuits or the process of crystallization was not to understand the mechanisms of the universe but to create a magical infernal lantern or a neon that conspired to its own extinction. His libido sciendi is above all a libido delendi (in beauty). And his ambition in this field is constantly expanding as his latest projects involve the roof of the Opéra Garnier and plants transformed into luminaires. To both of us, Paris! And to both of us Nature!"
Patrice Blouin, 2016