Lili Reynaud-Dewar
French installation and performance artist (born 1975)
Lili Reynaud-Dewar (born 1975 in La Rochelle) is a French installation and performance artist. She currently lives and works in Grenoble and Geneva. Her work has been exhibited in many international surveys, including the 5th Berlin Biennale (2008), the 3rd Paris Triennale (2012), the 12th Lyon Biennale (2013), the 5th Marrakech Biennial (2014), the 56th Venice Biennial (2015), the 31st Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts (2015) and the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016). Her practice includes film, installation, performance, text and sculpture, and is mainly concerned with the "boundaries of biography".
Life and work
Reynaud-Dewar studied ballet with Colette Milner at the Conservatoire de La Rochelle, then Public Law at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. In 2001, she enrolled for a Master in Fine Arts at the Glasgow School of Arts. During the years immediately after her MA, she mostly devoted herself to writing about art in various magazines and artist's monographs and producing sculptural installations which functioned as sets for her performances.
Her first performance in 2005, at the Centre d'art Mira Phalaina in Montreuil involved her Glasgow friend Mary Knox. Knox was reading a text by Reynaud-Dewar which described the life of rasta icon and maroon leader Queen Mother Nanny of the Maroons. Since then, she works with her friends, family (her mother Mireille Rias is in many of her shows and performances including Interpretation at Kunsthalle Basel) and her students.
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