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*1997, CH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wren Cellier lives and works in Lausanne. Their research focuses on identity, gender, relationships and embodiment through the notion of interconnection. Working with different mediums, they tend to create a specific atmosphere in a space, balancing between comfort and discomfort, vulnerability and strangeness. Using their voice and body allow them to create an emotional, poetical impact and build a connection with the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab In my transdisciplinary work, I question the concepts of identity and intersubjectivity as well as the limits that determine us. Body, space and sound are the core elements for my performances and installations. For these, I create ceramics, costumes, paintings, poems. I recite texts, produce soundtracks, sing and interact directly with sets of objects within a given space in order to create a new kind of constellation and narrative. Working on issues such as gender, relationship and embodiment, I try to conceive other ways of being in or connecting to the world.

Inspired by all types of organic or bodily extensions like tentacles, roots and body shells, I am fascinated by their potential and power and by the rims and edges that they form. I question interconnections considering the space between them and try to stretch, extend or manipulate our rigid sociological and urban structures imagining hybrid and chaotic creatures in fragile and dystopian environments.

Texts by Jack Halberstam, Karen Barad or Paul B. Preciado push me into multiplying my points of view, deconstruct categories and develop my personal language. I also draw my inspiration from ancient and contemporary myths.

Intervening in a space with my body and sound is an attempt for me to enliven objects differently, imagine a strange, polymorphic world and find an emancipatory force in it. \u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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education<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2022<\/td>Master in Fine Arts, IAGN, Academy of Art & Design, Basel<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>Bachelor in Fine Arts, HEAD, Geneva<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
solo shows<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2025<\/td>Airbag<\/em>, Mae West, Lausanne<\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>PURPLE ROAD, DAMP SUN<\/em>, Espace eeeeh !, Nyon<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Qu\u2019attends-tu pour voler<\/em>, M\u00c2T espace d\u2019art, Neuch\u00e2tel<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
performances & group shows<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2024<\/td>Purple road, damp sun<\/em>, as part as \u2018Tears Do Not Fall In Space\u2019 \u2013 Eliane Bertschi, Kunstraum Aarau<\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Purple road, damp sun<\/em>, as part as \u2018Quatre ans et demi\u2019 \u2013 Beno\u00eet Schmidt et Leah Nehmert, Le Grain, Geneva<\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Purple road, damp sun<\/em>, Mythic Beings, Liste Special Project, Basel<\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Purple road, damp sun<\/em>, Oc\u00e9an & Ciel, Visarte Fribourg<\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Purple road, damp sun<\/em>, Cl\u00f4ture, WUKA, Chemin des Clochtons 31, Lausanne<\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Purple road, damp sun<\/em>, Interstices, CAN Centre d\u2019art Neuch\u00e2tel<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Free the memory<\/em>, as part as \u2018PURITY\u2019 \u2013 Anita Mucolli, CACY, Yverdon-les-Bains<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>I Hear a New World \u2013 14 Miaows of the Future<\/em>, Fondation Beyeler, Basel<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>Peace or Never<\/em>, graduation show, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>Rewind II (no things fixed)<\/em>, Strecke Records, Fribourg<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>Do physaliae have heart attacks<\/em>, ACT festival \u2013 \u00e9d\u00e9a, Arsenic, Lausanne<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>Common dream, flotation school<\/em>, far\u00b0 Nyon<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>Grand Tour<\/em>, diploma group show, Geneva<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>Collectif Soupe<\/em>, Espace 3353, Geneva<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>Sammelsurium<\/em>, Espace Chemin\u00e9e Nord, Usine Kugler, Geneva<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>Collectif Soupe<\/em>, Biennale Interstellaire des espaces d\u2019art, Geneva<\/td><\/tr>
2018<\/td>^Hodler^<\/em>, LiveInYourHead, Geneva<\/td><\/tr>
2018<\/td>Le plus profond c\u2019est la peau<\/em>, Le Cabanon, UNIL \u2013 Chamberone, Lausanne<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
concerts<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2023<\/td>Wind Tunnel Festival, ZHdK, Zurich<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Mille r\u00eaves br\u00fblant en moi<\/em>, F\u00eate de la Musique, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>How to build an oerlikon dream house<\/em>, Oerlikon<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Bongo Joe, Geneva<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Shapeshifter<\/em>, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
residency<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2023<\/td>Transmitting Stones<\/em>, Sable & Chaux, B\u00e2le\/Loco, Val Osernone<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
compositions<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
2024<\/td>Mirabilis<\/em>, soundtrack for Late Bloom<\/em>, digital video loop by Dimitra Charamandas, 8 min, shown at \u2018Keepers\u2019, Livie Gallery, Zurich<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Megacyclone<\/em>, album, 43 min, Blue Yogurt \u2013 Tbilisi, Georgia<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>tu te r\u00e9veilles ce matin le ventre contre une pierre<\/em>, sound piece, 19 min<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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