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Paola Siri Renard’s sculptures are micro-architectures through which any individual can reclaim imperceptible architectural, cultural and normative realities via bodily experiments. Enlightened as much as distorted, they reveal formal grids and political structures which shape spaces and condition social interactions insidiously. Her transcription process isolates and rescales generic ornaments, bestowing upon them an autonomy that is stripped from their initial context. They acquire their own (dys)functionality. The anachronistic symbolism creates interfaces that undermine Western architectural orders. Paola Siri Renard reveals normative aesthetic codes spreading throughout centuries, in parallel with injunctions that neglect bodies ; echoing the history of her Martinican and Swedish roots. Natural processes such as sloughing or fossilization interact with immutable ornamental layers, conferring upon them an aura of mutation. Emanating from this encounter, the metamorphic shapes of her test-instruments suggest imaginary displacement engines. Physical reappropriations of these besieging architectural growths question the treatment of designed heritage through the correlation between its circulation and the exclusionary underpinnings of specific identities.
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Solo Exhibition
Group Exhibition
Education
Residencies
Selected publications
Grants
2024
_Im Kabinett der Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, curated by Nico Anklam, Recklinghausen, DE
2023
_Subcutanean Ghosts, curated by Joachim Coucke, Dash, Kortrijk, BE
2022
_-what will you be then Oneiroi? -glamour, curated by the Curatorial Programme, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
2021
_Armour Leftovers, RAVI: Résidences-Ateliers Vivegnis International, Liège, BE
2019
_Love to details (WHO MEANS WELL?), Oberbilker Allee 57, Düsseldorf, DE
2017
_Extentio, Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA), Paris, FR
2016
_As Long As You Can Walk, Tokyo GEIDAI, Toride, JP
2015
_MA, Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA), Paris, FR
2024
_Hard Hat Area, curated by Amélie Mckee and Melle Nieling, Plicknik Space, London, UK
_T B H, Magma Maria, Frankfurt, DE
_Any Way The Wind Blows, C-Mine, Genk, BE
_Jumping Fences, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
_Art for the City, Art Brussels with Spiaggia Libera, Paris, FR
_First Impressions, curated by Kristina Grigorjeva and Camille Regli, KRONE COURONNE - contemporary art centre, Biel/Bienne, CH
_Jumping Fences, Het Paviljoen, Ghent, BE
_Chestnut grenades & shooting sticks, Barbé, Ghent, BE
_They may germinate in unexpected places, Martins & Montero, Brussels, BE
2023
_Worldlines, Final Show HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts), curated by Sébastien Pluot, Gosset, Brussels, BE
_Ring ring ring, curated by Andy Rankin, galerie pal project, Paris, FR
_Another Land, curated by Carlota de Torregrosa, PILAR Institute, Brussels, BE
_Publiek Park 2023, curated by Koi Persyn, Adriënne van der Werf, Anna Laganovska and Jef Declercq, Harmoniepark, Antwerp, BE
_The desired bathroom in the desert, curated by SHIFT project_Axelle Devaux_P.C.M., Oscillobat, Brussels, BE
_Troglodyte guided tour, curated by César Akli Kaci and Alice Narcy, Tour Orion, Montreuil, FR
_Open Studios, HISK (Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten), Brussels, BE
select:deflect, curated by NADAR collective, Ontsteking, Ghent, BE
_Doce Pruebas de Amor x Feria ARCO, curated by Gaël Charbau, Institut Français Madrid, Madrid, ES
_Staying in the gap, curated by Yue Yuan, Société d’Électricité, Brussels, BE
2022
_Douze Preuves d’Amour x Villa Noailles, curated by Gaël Charbau, Hôtel des Arts, centre d’art TPM, Toulon, FR
_Super Feelings, de Appel, curated by the Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam, NL
_Douze Preuves d’Amour - 9ème Bourse Révélations Emerige, curated by Gaël Charbau and Mor Charpentier Gallery, Paris, FR
_GRASSROOTS, curated by Jan van de Weyer, JVDW Gallery, Düsseldorf, DE
_Requiem For An Entourage, Maëlle Galerie, Romainville, FR
_Jeune Création 72ème édition, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, FR
_Cendar Brussels, Galerie Zotto, Brussels, BE
_Open Studios, HISK (Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten), Ghent, BE
_Exposition Libre 2, curated by Latif Samassi, 3537, Paris, FR
2021
_POSTWENDEND, Kunstverein MISCHPOKE e.V., Mönchengladbach, DE
_Kunstpunkte21, Erkratherstrasse, Düsseldorf, DE
_get rid of Worry FAST, ES365, Düsseldorf, DE
2020
_ART BIESENTHAL 2020, curated by Tjioe Hecken, Berlin, DE
_Rundgang der Kunstakademie, Klasse Koenraad DEDOBBELEER, Düsseldorf, DE
2019
_INTER ference ferenz ferens férence, Asta AusstellungRaum, Düsseldorf, DE
_Rundgang der Kunstakademie, Klasse Gregor SCHNEIDER, Düsseldorf, DE
_IN-BEIRUT, curated by Chedly Atallah, La Maréchalerie - CAC, Versailles, FR
2018
_YIA (Young International Art Fair), Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR
_FELICITÀ 18, curated by Caroline Bachmann, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, FR
_La Confidentielle, curated by Morgane Tschiember, La Station, Paris, FR
_Ratafia, curated by Emmanuel Saulnier, Collectif 23, Paris, FR
2017
_Do Disturb with Nouvelle Collection Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
_Nouvelle Collection Paris, curated by Sarah Nefissa Belhadjali, ENSBA, Paris, FR
_Sangles et fenêtres, Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris, FR
2016
_WIP, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku, Tokyo, JP
_OLA KALA, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Saint-Restitut, Saint-Restitut, FR
_Introduction Exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, JP
_Locus Solus, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, FR
_1250°C, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, FR
2018-2020
_Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
_Professors Rita MCBRIDE, Koenraad DEDOBBELEER, Gregor SCHNEIDER
2017
_MFA (DNSAP), École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA), Paris, FR
_Ateliers Ann Veronica JANSSENS, Emmanuel SAULNIER
2016
_Exchange Program, Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku), Tokyo, JP
_Studios HACHIYA Kazuhiko, KAWASAKI Yoshihiro
2015
_BFA (DNAP), École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA), Paris, FR
_Atelier Ann Veronica JANSSENS
2024
_WIELS Residency, Brussels, BE (ongoing)
2022-2023
_HISK - Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent and Brussels, BE
2021
_RAVI - Résidences-Ateliers Vivegnis International, Liège, BE
2017
_Nobuyuki Fujiwara Design Glass Studio, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku, Tokyo, JP
2017
_La Maladresse, choreographed by Mylène Benoît, Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto, JP
2016
_Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques (CIRVA), with the support of the Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès, Marseille, FR
2023
_Wandelgids / Walking Guide, Publiek Park, Antwerp, BE
2022
_Super Feelings, poems edition, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
_Douze Preuves d’Amour - 9ème Bourse Révélations Emerige, exhibition catalogue, text by Aurélie Faure, Paris, FR
2022
_HISK Editions, embossed papers, Brussels, BE - collection Friends of S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
2021
_POSTWENDEND, Kunstverein MISCHPOKE e.V., exhibition catalogue, Mönchengladbach, DE
2018
_FELICITÀ 18, exhibition catalogue, interview by Elisa Rigoulet, Beaux-Arts de Paris Les Éditions, Paris, FR
2018
_RATAFIA, exhibition catalogue, Récit Éditions, Paris, FR
2024
_Artist development grant, Flemish Department of Culture, BE
2022
_DRAC Île-de-France, FR
2022
_Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, FR
2017
_Working Grant Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, JP
2016
_ENSBA Paris/Japanese government-sponsored Scholarship program/Tokyo University of the Arts’s scholarship (Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku), FR/JP
