Solo show
Mentorship, Reiffers Art Initiatives (2023-2024)Immortelles – A SUD (2023)
Temple of Love – To Hide, KfW Stiftung (2024)
Maât and the tears of God – Aware Prize (2024)
L’Ère du Verseau – Marcel Duchamp Prize (2024-2025)
Temple of Love — Atopos, MAC VAL (2022)
Temple of Love — To Hide, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (2022)
C R I C C R A C, Centrale Gallery Powerhouse (2015)
Cric Crac (2015)
Openstudio, Rijksakademie (2017)
The Sea Says Nothing, openstudio Rijksakademie (2018)
Hybris, galerie Untilthen (2018)
Défixion, Musée Henri-Prades and MO.CO, Panacée (2020)
Blue Lights in the Basement, Nicoletti Contemporary (2022)
Mondes Subtiles, Air de Paris (2021)
Performance
Monument aux Vivant·e·s – FESTIVAL DÉPRESSION 10 mai 2023Monument aux Vivant·e·s – DÉNI (2023)
Temple of Love — Affirmation, ROHM Theatre Kyoto 1 octobre 2021
Monument aux Vivant·e·s – CHOC 10 mai 2022
Biennial
Temple of Love – Tutti Sistemati, Toronto Biennial (2024)Steles – Gwandju Biennale (2024)
Temple of Love – To Be Ascetic (Tolalito), Göteborg Biennial (2021)
An unpredictable expression of human potential, Sharjah Biennial (2017)
Group show
Van Gogh and the Stars, Fondation Van Gogh (2024)Temple of love — Love To Love, New Museum (2021-2022)
Potomitan, Tour Panorama (2014)
Culture Pop Marauders, Mains d’Oeuvres (2016)
Le fil d’alerte, Fondation Ricard Prize (2019)
Les Moyens du bord, La Vilette x Centre Pompidou (2020)
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Independent Art Fair, New York City (2023)Eat me softly – If you come softly (2021)
Union poisson hallal (2021)
Sculptures and more
Entre chien et loup (2015)Nous Carl Brouard (2015)
Le pied d’Alep (2015)
Sequin + Vodou + Abstract (2015)
Vase à loup-garou (2015)
Stèles (Port-au-prince, Haïti) (2024)
Fontaine est puits, l’or noir (2014)
Videos
Guarapera (2015)Quand je serai morte (2015)
Tutela est Fortuna est Tyché (2015)
Cric Crac #2 (2014)
bio
Gäelle Choisne (1985, FR) lives and works in Paris.
Sensitive to contemporary issues, Gaëlle Choisne’s practice considers the complexity of the world, its political and cultural disorder, whether it be the over-exploitation of nature, its resources, or the vestiges of colonial history, where Creole esoteric traditions, myths and popular cultures mingle.
Her projects are conceived as ecosystems of sharing and collaboration, pockets of «resistance» where new possibilities are created, notably with the «Temple of Love» project. Initiated from Roland Barthes’ original essay on love, «Fragments d’un discours amoureux» (1977), Gaëlle Choisne adds a political dimension to the concept of love by paying homage to invisible bodies, minority and fragile souls, and dispossessed hearts. «Temple of love » is an evolutionary project defining itself through its modes of appearance and genesis according to its invitations and its location.
The works/installations of Gaëlle Choisne have been exhibited in many institutions: (Vitry-sur-Seine), Centrale Powerhouse (Montreal), CAFA Museum (Beijing), Pera Museum (Istanbul), MAM - Musée d’art moderne de Paris, Musée Fabre (Montpellier), Zacheta Gallery (Warsaw), The Mistake Room (Los Angeles), Bétonsalon (Paris), Gr_und project space (Berlin), MAMO - Centre d’art de la Cité radieuse de Marseille, La Villette x Pompidou (Paris), Centre d’art contemporain La Halle des bouchers (Vienne), Musée archéologique Henri-Prade (Lattes), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon etc.
She has also participated in several biennials and triennials: 15th Gwandju Biennial (2024), 3rd Toronto Biennial of Art (2024), 5th New Museum Triennial (2021), 11th International Biennial of Contemporary Art (GIBCA), 13th International Biennial of Lyon (2015), 12th Havana Biennial (2015), Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017) and 14th Curitiba Biennial (2017).
She has been part of many residency programs in France and internationally such as “Meeting Points collaboration” with CCA -Campus Caraïbéen des Arts (Martinique), Bethanian-KW (Berlin), the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam), Atelier Van Lieshout (Rotterdam), the Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris and OPTICA & Art3 Valence (Montreal).
In 2024, Gaëlle Choisne won the Marcel Duchamp Prize and, in 2021, the AWARE Prize. In 2019, she is nominated for the Ricard Foundation Prize and the Sam Art Project.
Gaëlle Choisne is represented by the gallery Air de Paris, Romainville (FR).
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Several voices in this film collide and create accumulations of layers of truth and points of view. The «voice of the people», my voice; the so called «official» voice, that of the media, historians, ethnologists; the scientific, romantic, lyrical voice, orchestrated in part by René Depestre, author of novels, notably Haitian novels. The film is made in two different ways. A «low tech» shoulder camera signifying the regime of film documents on the internet and a static camera referring to the image regime of the traditional documentary in order to question the representation through the prism of colonial history and Haiti.