FORUM CÉCILE BELMONT
Each month our residency guests will present their own work, a chosen theme, a current interest or present their residency project. The French artist Cécile Belmont is Hordaland Art Centre's guest in October.
Cécile Belmont´s work includes performances, urban interventions, embroideries, paper installations and clothing. She acts in different contexts and relationships to the audience - from the street into the gallery and from the gallery on to the street.
By using simple means and techniques, her work asserts itself as a space where the fragile intensity of the human – with its emotions, desires, relationship with the others and with reality – is put back into the center of thought.
During the residency Belmont will work on an embroidery project titled The same piece of land under our feet, which deals with the relationship between landscape and memory by observing the sites of the Atlantic Wall in Norway, France and Germany. On the talk at Hordaland Art Centre Cécile Belmont will present both this and her earlier works.
The presentation will be given in English.
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Cécile Belmont (1975, France) is a visual artist living and working in Berlin. Her embroideries, installations and urban interventions are shown both inside the gallery and in public space. Through this relationship of space she creates acts of dissemination. Her recent solo exhibitions have been Like an odyssey, Modul-Dresden, Dresden, Germany and First step into private space, Pesci pneumatici, Bologna, Italy, both in 2008. In 2009 she was commissioned by Space Beam, Incheon, Korea to contribute to the public art project Public Studio _ IV.