Célia Gondol
Observables d’Apeiron, 2016, silk, lurex, polyester, 4000 x 160 x 310 cm. Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès.
Exposition: « Les mains sans sommeil » Forum Ginza Hermès Sep 13, 2018 – Jan 13, 2019 Crédits images: ©Nacása & Partners Inc. Courtesy of Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
Célia Gondol, « Who ordered that ? », 2018, bright annealed stainless steel, varied seeds, 440 x 220 cm.
Exposition : « Physical Meanings », M O N T E V E R I T A, 2018.
Photo credits: Gregory Copitet
Célia Gondol, Visite, 2016. Video : 27’03.
Exhibition : « Physical Meanings », M O N T E V E R I T A, 2018.
Photo credits: Gregory Copitet
Dimensions telluriques,2016. Silk, copper, reflector, LED projector: 580 x 350 cm. Work produced as part of the Hermès Corporate Foundation artists residencies’ programs.
Agreement in compassion, Nakhom Pathom gesture, Offering, 2015. Gold leaf, oil, palm tree.
In situ Thailand with Sareena Sattapon. Song eyes closed, in collaboration with Nina Santes. Voice: Nina Santes. Text: Celia Gondol
Photo credits: Celia Gondol
Agreement in compassion, Rio gesture, Alegria, 2016. Gold leaf, oil, Monstera plant.
In situ Brazil with Clarissa Baumann.
Exhibition: Sculpte: faire à l’atelier, La Criée Centre d’Art, Rennes, 2018.
Photo credits: Marc Domage
O Lunático, 2017. Folhetos, printed booklets of Sabastião Marinho’s poem. 10.5 x 14.8cm Exhibition : « Physical Meanings », M O N T E V E R I T A, 2018.
Photo credits: Celia Gondol
Omni tempore, 2018. Mirror polished stainless steel, 50 x 50 cm
Exhibition : « Physical Meanings », M O N T E V E R I T A, 2018.
Photo credits: Celia Gondol
SLOW, 2014-2018. InSitu: Paris – São Paulo- Førde- Bangkok. Loop performance, a capella singing and choral singing.
Banana leaves.
Exhibition: The house flowing reflections, Bangkok, Thaïland, 2018.
Photo credits: Jom
Célia Gondol was born in 1985. She lives and works in Paris.
For some artists, the practice of art is above all else a way to give a shape to the insatiable curiosity sparked of by the world as it is given to us.
It is an attitude, a perceptible availability, a need to translate, in practice, the enjoyable complexity of knowledge.
In Célia Gondol’s research, this transposition takes us to the world of dance and sculpture, to the dimensions of sound, light and even to astrophysical observations.
During her recent residency in a Hermès silk factory, she called on Hélène Courtois, an astrophysicist specialised in the cartography of expanding galaxies, in order to get inspiration from her documents and express them into the art of silk weaving. The final artwork is called Observables d’Apeiron (Apeiron Observables, 2016) and rolls out these representations of the “unrepresentable” over a twenty-five metre long width which the spectators are invited to physically cross.
In Slow (2014), she invited a couple to perform a slow dance in the middle of the exhibition and layered a banana leaf between their bodies. When the audience moved closer to the dancers, they could hear them hum a pop tune, infused with gentleness and tenderness inside the codified space of the art venue.
In the Songlines (2014) installation, she lets elements such as wood sheets and foliage plants “settle” under their own weight in space, merely supported by thin steel rods. In the video Agreement in compassion (2015), she filmed a young Thai woman who was covering a few palm leaves with gold leaf.
The rallying point of these pieces which are, in principle, on different levels from each other, lies in this very delicate attention the artist pays to the interaction between bodies and their space, whether it is the body of the spectator crossing the large width, the bodies of the sculptures, the body of the young woman taking care of the tree and of course the bodies of the dancers.
Célia Gondol started dancing at the age of eighteen and now practices regularly in a company and as a choreographer. To her this singular diversity, being a plastic artist and a dancer, forms an inseparable whole.
It is asking us, when we are in front of her work, to be on the lookout for those moments of balance and grace in which something like a feeling may take the shape of a thought that will be free to touch us.
As if the artist was leaving us with the responsibility of taking the time to watch, feel, think and experience something; all in all the time to live beside her.
Gaël Charbau
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Selected Solo Exhibition
2018
PHYSICAL MEANINGS, Galerie MONTEVERITA, Paris (FR)
2014
Point Cardinal, DNSAP, ENSBA, Paris (FR)
2013
How to look through a ghost, PSG Art Gallery, Bangkok (TH)
2012
Un Temps Ralenti, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans, direction Josef Nadj, Orléans (FR)
The spell was cast, DNAP, ENSBA, Paris (FR)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Bivouac#5, installation « Agreement in compassion », CNAC, Le Magasin, Grenoble (FR)
2018
Les mains sans sommeil, curated by Gaël Charbau, Forum Hermès Tokyo, Tokyo (JP)
La timidité des cimes « Slow », curated by Beatriz Alonso, Fjordane Art Museum, Forde (NO)
SCULPTER (faire à l’atelier), curated by Sophie Kaplan, La Criée/FRAC/Musée BA, Rennes (FR)
Exposition Batia Suter » O Universo nu », le BAL/Atelier de Paris-CDCN, Paris (FR)
2017
Les mains sans sommeil, curated by Gaël Charbau, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR) + performance Réciter les langues et O Universo nu, Paris (FR)
Brouhaha, curated by Mickaël Roy, Le Granit, Belfort (FR)
Verbo Slow, Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo (BRA)
62e Salon de Montrouge, curated by Ami Barak, Beffroi de Montrouge, Paris (FR) + performance, Réciter les langues et O Universo nu, Paris (FR)
Do Disturb « Slow », curated by Vittoria Matarrese, performance, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
2016
Station 1(0), LABORATOIRE ESPACE CERVEAU Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne (FR)
Une inconnue d’avance, Bourse Révélations Emerige, curateur Gaël Charbau, Villa Emerige (FR)
TROPICÁLIA, galerie l’inlassable, Paris (FR)
The making of an exhibition, Galleria Marcolini/CIY, Forli (IT)
2015
FIAC-L’OFFICIEL, « Slow« , performance, Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris (FR)
Les voyageurs, curateur Hou Hanru, Palais des Beaux Arts, Paris (FR)
CIY à la Villa Belleville, curateur CIY, Paris (FR)
2014
Rayon Vert, en collaboration avec Paul Lahana, ENSBA, Paris (FR)
2013
How to look through a ghost, PSG Art Gallery / Bangkok (TH)
Un Temps Ralenti, exhibition at the Centre Chorégraphique national d’Orléans, direction Josef Nadj, Orléans (FR)
2010
Bureau du dessin, ENSAD, La Douera
Residences
2016/2019
Laboratoire Espace Cerveau, artiste invitée dans le cadre du cycle « Vers un monde cosmomorphe », Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbane (FR)
2015/2016
Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, résidence d’artiste aux ateliers de la Holding Textile Hermès, Lyon. Marraine Ann Veronica Janssens (FR)
Publications
Jeunes Critiques d’Art, Célia Gondol, De Rerum Natura, Critique Henri Guette, revue web
Le Quotidien de l’Art, portrait de Pedro Morais, numéro 1393, 1/12/17
62e Salon de Montrouge, catalogue d’exposition, curated by Ami Barak, texte Mickaël Roy, 2017
Cahiers de résidence 6, Résidence Holding Textile Hermès, entretien Gaël Charbau, éditions Actes Sud/Coédition Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Octobre 2016
Le Chassis n°1, revue papier, entretien Emmanuelle Oddo, octobre 2016 lire l’entretien
Une inconnue d’avance, catalogue d’exposition Bourse Révélation Emerige, texte Gaël Charbau, 2016
50/52, ouvrage sur la scène artistique émergente, curateur Laurence Bruguière, texte Noémie Monier, 11-13 Editions, 2015 lire le texte Vue du catalogue d’exposition
Les voyageurs, catalogue d’exposition, curateur Hou Hanru, texte Anne-lou Vicente, Beaux-Arts de Paris Les Editions, 2015 vue du catalogue d’exposition
Diplômes 2014, Catalogue des diplômés de l’ENSBA, Beaux-Arts de Paris Les Editions, 2014
Le Chassis, Perpective#1, Chronique Noémie Monier, revue en ligne, 2014
Domus, Tokonoma/Co.Labor.Lab, collaboration avec l’agence d’architecture Gillot+Givry, article en ligne, texte Tony Côme, 2012
Collections/Acquisitions
2018
Observables d’Apeiron: Collection publique – FRAC Rhône-Alpes – IAC, Villeurbannes (FR)
Visite: Collection publique – FRAC Rhône-Alpes – IAC, Villeurbannes (FR)
2016
Observables d’Apeiron: Collection privée – Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Paris (FR)
Visite: Collection privée – Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Paris (FR)
Dimensions telluriques: Collection privée – Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Paris (FR)
Prix
2018
Nomination et Finaliste, Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo, texte Hélène Meisel, Paris (FR)
Danse
2016-2017
Le principe d’incertitude, Liz Santoro et Pierre Godard, Mass over Volume, MAC-VAL, Insitu, Paris (FR)
Cie contour Progressif, Mylène Benoit, Lille (FR)/ La Maladresse, Villa Kujoyama, résidences institut français Kyoto (JP).
Performance, O Universo nu, Les mains sans sommeil, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
Creation SLOW, Festival Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
Performance, Réciter les langues, Les mains sans sommeil, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
2015-2016
Création en collaboration avec Nina Santes,
«A leaf, far and ever», L’Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, Paris (FR)
Cie Contour Progressif, Mylène Benoit, Lille (FR)
«L’aveuglement», L’Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, Paris (FR)
2013-2014
Cie Contour Progressif, Mylène Benoit, Lille (FR)
«Notre Danse», Scène Nationale Le Phénix, Valenciennes (FR)
2012-2013
Cie Suprabégnine, Pauline SIMON, Paris (FR)
«Exploit», Création Théatre de la Ville, Abbesses, Paris (FR)
Danse Elargie, Théatre de la ville, Paris (FR)
2009-2010
Diplôme d’État de professeur de danse en danse contemporaine, CND LYON
«Vanishing point» , performance, Galerie Apolonia, STRASBOURG
Death By Glitter, Clint LUTES, BERLIN
« Get A Leg Up », création
Dock 11, Berlin (DE)
Cie Adrien M, Adrien MONDOT, Grenoble (FR)
Atelier de recherche, Centre de dévellopement chorégraphique, Cie Michal MUALEM/Giannalberto DE FILIPPI (SASHA WALTZ and GUESTS), Bologne (IT)
Performance au «Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna», Bologne (IT)
2008
Cie Courrier de Nuit, Jean-Pierre BONOMO, Grenoble (FR)
« Emotions Chimiques », création Théâtre de création, Grenoble (FR)
2007-2008
Guests Company, Yuval PICK, Lyon (FR)
« Look White Inside », creation, Festival International de Danse de Cannes (FR)
Cie Lanabel, Annabelle BONNERY, Grenoble (FR)
« Exquises », création Théatre National de Chaillot, Paris (FR)
2006-2008
Cie Lanabel, Annabelle BONNERY, Grenoble (FR)
« Excite », creation, Festival ARTDANTHE, Vanves (FR)
Espaco o Tempo, Montemor o Novo (Rui HORTA, Portugal) (PT)
