An interview by
, curator and curator
Hello and thanks for your interest in my work. Actually, when I think about the beginning of my career an artist, I remember that I have been always fascinated by multifaceted artists in the history of Art. Antonin Artaud, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, … To me, discovering a theatre play written by a poets who has been also a drawer / painter was / is not only provoking my curiosity but was / is also a joy-able effort to understand and try to perceive a huge competence that one artist can develop during years by practicing different forms and disciplines. I love Coctau’ s works not as a fan but because he was the one who thought me how not to be afraid of modern
Francine Gourguechon
classifications, labels, boxes and frames that others( art network) are imposing on an artist. It is hard to walk on borders. People( spatially program managers and curators) are not keen of multifaceted artists. They need to be able to categorise you and your work. During years of working as a non-categorazable artist, I heard very often from the program managers that they do not know how to present my works. They need to to put you in a box with a table such as dance artist, theatre maker, visual artist,… They even try to to create a new category nowadays labeled
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