Pauline Curnier Jardin
Pauline CURNIER JARDIN (1980, France) is a visual artist working mainly in film, installation, performance and drawing. She spent two years as Rijksakademie resident in Amsterdam and lives in Rome and Berlin. In 2019, she was awarded the Preis der Nationalgalerie. Curnier Jardin combines ethnography and fantasy, with a particular awareness of the roles women have played in mythology, folklore and conventional narrative cinema; roles that are commonly stereotyped as saint, witch, mother or mystic. Her work has been presented internationally at 57th Venice Biennale, PERFORMA15 in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in São Paolo, Brazil and IFFR.
Filmography
(selection) Ah! Jeanne (2008, instal), Ami (2009, instal), L.O.V & T.V.O (2010, instal), Grotta Profunda les humeurs du gouffre/Grotta Profunda the moody chasm (2011, instal), Blutbad Parade/Bloodbath Parade (2014, instal), The Resurrection Plot (2015, instal), Explosion Ma Baby (2017, short), Teetotum (2018, short), Bled Out – Ausgeblutet (2019, short), Fat to Ashes (2021, short), Fireflies (Lucciole) (2022, short)
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Pauline Curnier Jardin op IFFR
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Bled Out – Ausgeblutet
Pauline Curnier Jardin | 16' | Germany | World premiere (festival)
A celebration of post-menopausal femininity. Emboldened by the re-emergence of their menstrual flow, these women reclaim their erotic power. -
Explosion Ma Baby
Pauline Curnier Jardin | 9' | France | World premiere
It is August. Feel the suffocating heat of the sun penetrating your skin. Screams, colours, chants, garlands of money, explosions, and the angelic ico