BIO

"It is the work itself that has opened the field from which it appears in another day, it is the work itself that metamorphoses and becomes the continuation, the interminable reinterpretations to which it is legitimately susceptible change it only in itself."

Merleau-Ponty, “L’Oeil et l’Esprit”

Roxane Gouguenheim is a French visual artist and a theoretician living and working in Paris. Her university studies in art history and film studies in Sorbonne University and Keio Daigaku (Tokyo), as well as her work in the applied arts and textile research, created the material on which her studio practice is built today. Deeply inspired by the powers of the cinematic image and texts of aesthetics, phenomenology and spirituality, her work relates questions of belonging and struggles, of hierarchy and territory in a work of very ploughed textures in constant development through a large number of mediums: oil painting, virtual manipulations, sound extraction and construction, performance, immersive installations, experimental video, drawing and sculpture.

Based on a very strict protocol of serial production, each canvas format made in oil paint and attacked in its mass by construction tools, will become the matrix and the promise of the collapse of its own system. This work allows us to enter into a notion inherited from experimental cinema of "bad film", by provoking a mal-technicity of the mediums highlighting the economic flows that build, structure and arm the images. An image, in whatever form, is a weapon whose primary source must be understood here, circulating from hypostasis to permanent erasure.

Her works can be found in private collections.