Exhibition Jeanne Berbinau Aubry, Il faut bien des failles pour laisser passer la lumière.

Jeanne Berbinau Aubry develops a work of sculpture and installation where the study of matter and its potential distortions occupies a fundamental place. Dissecting mechanisms and phenomena as much as concepts and prerequisites, she diverts their manifestations, both physical and symbolic, to lead them towards often paradoxical alternatives to their primary destination.

"An old alchemical adage prescribed to make the fixed volatile, then to repeat this operation in the other direction. For Jeanne Berbinau Aubry, sculpture is a story of changes of state: from sublimation to condensation, from fusion to solidification, from liquefaction to vaporization or vice versa. If it takes flaws to let the light through, as the title of his first personal exhibition suggests, the artist tests the resistance and reversibility of these changes of state to bring to life what seems inert, to track the effect and go relentlessly towards difficulty. To do this, she mainly works with glass, playing with its true-false appearance, between shine and fragility, transparency and opacity. Divided between ancestral experiments and the most current technology, each of his works is composed of various forces and several fields of action: the simultaneity between a will, a material, a movement and a space will disturb the order of things. . Within these recovered or sampled objects, a physical-chemical as well as a symbolic combat takes shape which pushes back the limits of technique and through which the insurrectional breath of matter can spring forth at any time. »
Marianne Derrien (excerpt from the exhibition booklet)

For her first monographic exhibition, Jeanne Berbinau Aubry will present a series of works composed of gases, liquids and solids, which will show different states of matter, in situations that are often unstable and favorable to metamorphosis. _ Graduated from the Villa Arson in 2015, she develops an experimental practice of sculpture and installation. After joining La Station, an artist-run-space installed in the former slaughterhouses of the city of Nice, she took part in exhibition projects and participated in residency programs such as Kalga in the Himalayas (2015), the Villa Medici in Rome (2016) or the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2019).
Since 2015, his research has been supported by structures such as the Bernar Venet Foundation, the Côte d'Azur University, the Fiminco Foundation and the Île-de-France Region. His works have been presented at the Center National d'Art Contemporain de la Villa Arson (Nice, FR), at the Point Commun (Annecy, FR), at the Doris Ghetta gallery (Ortisei, IT), at the Friche de la Belle de Mai (Marseille, FR), as well as at the Salon de Montrouge, at the Bubenberg gallery and at the Espace Topographie de l'Art (Paris, FR). In November 2022, Jeanne Berbinau Aubry will join the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, for a research residency around the notion of bioluminescence.