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Gwendoline Robin

For more than twenty years, the Belgian visual artist and performer Gwendoline Robin has been working with elementary materials (fire, sand, water, earth, ice, glass, etc.) to orchestrate their metamorphoses in the form of installations, performances or videos. Since 2005, Gwendoline Robin has presented her performances at international performance and dance festivals in Europe, Canada, Chile, Australia and Asia. Some of her installations / performances are also presented at exhibitions in art centers in Belgium, Canada and France. Artist associated in 2007 at the Halles de Schaerbeek, she met the dancer and programmer of “Dimanches de la Danse†, Ida De Vos. In 2009, she will associate Ida De Vos in her research on gesture and the dialogue between body and space. She will carry out several collaborations with artists from other disciplines : Garrett List for music, Karin Vyncke, Pierre Droulers, Boris Charmatz, Gaëlle Bourges, Louise Vanneste and recently Daniela Gatica Morales (Chile) for dance ; Simon Siegmann for the scenography and the plastic installation ; Olivier Renouf for sound creation ; and HerveÌ Caps, physicist, for scientific research. Over the course of these collaborations, the desire to weave her performative vocabulary into a structure more open to multidisciplinarity is more present and encourages her to think of spaces as active devices shared between the performer and the audience. Following a trip to Chile in 2014, G. Robin was inspired by the desert landscapes observed, the play of scale between the infinitely small and the immensely large, the long processes of trans- formation and the dazzling moments of explosion, combustion, which transform the performance space. She then signs the performances CrateÌ€re 6899, created in May 2016 and AGUA, created in collaboration with Simon Siegmann in May 2018, at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. In 2016, she combined certain scientific research with her plastic research, more particularly that which tackles the relationship between Earth, Water and the Universe. In July 2017, Gwendoline Robin, in collaboration with the French choreographer Gaëlle Bourges, created and presented the duo Incidence 1327 at the “Sujets aÌ€ Vif†, during the Festival d’Avignon 2017. As an extension of his research on the relationship between Earth, Water and the Universe, G. Robin imagines and builds the exhibition “Under the moons of Jupiter†at the Center d’Art, Mi- cro-Onde de l’Onde in Velizy. The installation evolves with the artist’s different performances and the internal processes of the works. On this occasion, she invites Gaëlle Bourges and SteÌ phane Monteiro, musician, to improvise in the installation to create the performance Confluence n ° 1. His creations evoke observed or dreamed natural phenomena, physical processes and move- ments in the cosmic landscape. They reveal an attraction for science and research on the physical properties of materials. Gwendoline Robin teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tournai and at ESA Le 75, in the Paint- ing studio, in Brussels. Gwendoline Robin has been supported by Grand Studio since 2012 and Wallonie-Bruxelles-International.