Alizée Gazeau
Alizée Gazeau is an artist based in Berlin, Germany and Paris, France
Alizée Gazeau is one of ArtConnect’s Artists to Watch '22
Alizée Gazeau studied art history and art philosophy. In 2020, after a one-year residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, she moved to Berlin where she lives and works. She works with direct imprints of tools that melt into surfaces. She often works with series to see them in a constant flow where an object repeats itself and creates a movement.
As a curator she has just completed a two-chapter cycle of the exhibition Off Water presented in Berlin and Paris in which she brought together twelve women artists of different nationalities.
Lisa Deml
Curator
“Alizée Gazeau interweaves an artistic and curatorial practice that is dedicated to creating points of contact and zones of connection through bodily and sensual conversations. Her continuous movement between bringing together and letting go is epitomised in the net, an ancestral tool which she uses to provoke intuitive and incidental encounters with different surfaces marked by tension as well as tenderness.”
ArtConnect asked the winning artists to share with us a glimpse into their creative life to get a sense of their personal inspiration and artistic process.
How did you get started as an artist?
It has always been present, a solution, a fight and a refuge for a better understanding of my relationship to time, space, others.
How would you describe your artistic approach?
I always start from a real object found, extracted from its context to then navigate around it and decline a whole narration by using methods and materials which adapt to my first intuitions. It is above all an intimate approach that I stretch and extend to create a back and forth between the first idea and its autonomous materialization.
Alizée Gazeau’s studio
And how about what inspires you?
This is a complex question in the sense that inspiration is often a mystery to the artists themselves. One reads my work in connection with water most often, and it is true. However, water is more a vector to express something, an idea of fluidity, a research on memory.
What are the biggest challenges you’ve faced as an artist?
Attempts to achieve a certain idea of harmony are always a challenge.
For me it is also a question of articulating together my practice as an artist and my theoretical research, which has recently led me to curate group exhibitions and write texts about them.
Alizée Gazeau working on a project
Describe a typical day in the studio/wherever you make your work.
My relationship to the studio is very active, I am constantly doing, failing and starting again until I find a first solution and leave the studio at the end of the day. The writings, readings are elsewhere, outside in the crowd or at home.
Is there a medium, a process, or a technique that you haven't used in your work yet but would like to try out?
I think other techniques will come to develop ideas. I would like to work with a lithography workshop for example.
What are you currently working on? Or an upcoming project you want to mention?
I am currently preparing a solo exhibition in Tokyo curated by Rio Usui in the project space Ona Project Room. I am very happy to present several pieces as a return journey to Japan.
How does it feel to be selected as an ArtConnect Artist to Watch?
Being part of a group of artists, curators, creating a network of collaboration gives meaning to all our practices.
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