Meet the artist: Gaëlle Choisne
Meet the artist: Gaëlle Choisne
Art

Fri. March 27, 6:30PM

Meet the artist: Gaëlle Choisne

Discover the artistic practice of the 2024 Marcel Duchamp laureate.

Awarded the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2024, Gaëlle Choisne has developed a practice that resists fixed categories. Her work explores the fractures of contemporary life, from environmental over-exploitation and colonial history to Creole esoteric traditions, myths, and popular culture.


Her projects unfold as living ecosystems in which knowledge circulates through bodies, voices, and materials, drawing connections between the intimate and the universal. Sculpture, painting, performance, and song coexist not merely as experimental forms, but as an aesthetic and political choice.


In conversation with Sofia Dati, curator at WIELS, Gaëlle Choisne will discuss how collaboration and collectivity structure her practice, how these dynamics create spaces of resistance, and how such systems enable new possibilities to emerge.


Cover: Film still from 'Creole Garden in Normandie, Gaëlle Choisne', 2023

Image by Makoto Friedmann



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speaker

Gaëlle Choisne

Gaëlle Choisne combines a documentary approach (photography and video) with the use of raw materials, addressing socio-political issues related to the over-exploitation of natural resources and colonial history. Born of a Haitian mother and a Breton father, the artist blends oral traditions, Creole mythology and popular culture in works that refer to both Haiti’s history and her own personal narrative. Choisne has been awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2024. ©Aude Carleton

moderator

Sofia Dati

Sofia Dati is a curator at WIELS. Previously, she was a visual and audiovisual arts programmer at Beursschouwburg where she curated exhibitions and film programs. From 2019 to 2021, as part of the curatorial team in WIELS, she worked on exhibitions, discursive programs and publications. She is also involved in collective curatorial processes with Black Archive and Kinostories. Sofia studied Literature at La Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Cultural Studies at KU Leuven and Curatorial Studies at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome. Her practice is rooted in writing and translation. She worked with the Christopher Okigbo Foundation on Christiane Fioupou’s French translation of the collection of poems Labyrinths (Gallimard, 2021) and is co-editor of Alexis Blake’s monograph Allegory of the Painted Woman (Archive Books, forthcoming). She has published articles in magazines such as Po&sie, Arshake and Conceptual Fine Arts.
Start
Fri. March 27, 6:30PM
End
Fri. March 27, 9:00PM
Format
TheMerode Talks
Language
French (BE) / Français (BE)
Guest allowed?
Yes, 1 per member

Address

Event
Place Poelaert, 6
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Parking
Parking Poelaert, Place Poelaert 1000 Brussels

Detailed programme

Welcome
Fri. March 27, 6:30PM
Talk and Q&A
Fri. March 27, 7:00PM
Networking
Fri. March 27, 8:00PM
End
Fri. March 27, 9:00PM