snooty horse

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Arianne Foks is interested in the presentation of the body as a medium, its relationship to architecture, domestic objects, and its power to engage us, the audience and the performer, in an emotional way through memory or by evocation. Her work questions desire, identity and physical or conceptual displacement. The shift of use of an object creates a shift in her identity. Her performances are a meeting between body and object, but naturally a meeting with the audience. Perhaps a love story? She collaborates with many sound and performance and dance artists from different parts of the world to enrich her experience and create exchanges.

Arianne Foks is a visual and performance artist. Graduated in 2007 from Toulouse Fine Art School, she was resident of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in China in 2006, and of the Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris in 2008.
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source: archivopenspace32de

Arianne Foks is a multidicsiplinary artist, she creates intallation, drawing, photography and her main medium is Performance art. As she adapts her work to the space, she sees it as a site specific working process.

Her work is made of words, colors, rythm, architecture, partners, pop-culture, folklore, personal mythology…

She adapts her work to the context, the space, the local environment, it’s a response to what she sees and hears. I’ts what she loves, what she hates.

That’s why she tries to move around, walking without any destination in an unknown city.
Being able to collect images, local habits and folklore to integrate them into her work, using it as a way of shaping her own identity.
Because it’s a lot about identity, and how the physical reality of it can be shaped in different ways. It’s also a question of desire, how desire produces a new body?

She defines it as a creation of a personal mythology, she transforms herself into a horse or a frog, or she writes a text with kisses, sharing with the audience a particular moment.

She has been showing her work around Europe and the USA, during Contemporary Art exhibition and International Performance Art Festival.
She is also collaborating with many different artists, choregraphers, photographers, musicians around the world (Paris, Milano, Berlin, New York, Tallinn, Cardiff…)