Agathe DE Bailliencourt

Profile

I'm a French painter, born in Paris in 1974, I currently live and work in Berlin.

I work on canvas and paper, as well as in public space and architecture. Coming from the Ecole des Beaux Art de Cergy-Pontoise and the Ecole Boulle in Paris and starting my artistic
career as an experimental filmmaker, I've started to paint again on canvas in 2002. After a special project with Comme des Garcons in 2004 and a successful campaign as artistic director with Ogilvy and Mather I had my first 
solo exhibition in 2005 in Singapore and in 2006 in Paris.

Over the years, I have been seeking to expand beyond my initial framed medium of paper or canvas. This is how the installations on spaces have been taken more and more importance in my work.

About works / performance

I'm a painter, working in situ as well as on canvas and paper. My installations give me the possibility to escape the initial frame of the medium and to paint in the real world itself in a very direct sense. I love the idea of being 'out of the frame'. The resulting installations often give an impression to 'grow' as a continuum with no end. My art finds its most essential denominator in problems of identity and the relation of individual and society. In this sense, my work addresses imperfection and failure, as well as disentanglement and liberation, progress and exultation. Far from exercising a concept, I see my work rather as an inquiry into what Francis Bacon called "the human form". How can the reality of something that consists of various, ambivalent and inconsistent aspects be described in one single picture? Therefore, the integral elements of my work are figures of contradiction and repetition. It is a work of precision and translation, of composing the disjointed.

 

"Je m'en fous", projection of a drawing on the IHZ-Building, Light installation realized with Skudi Optix for the Festival of Lights, Berlin, Germany. 2007. Photos courtesy by Skudi Optix.

 

"La vie en rose", Enamel paint on floor, walls, furnitures, bikes etc.... Installation realized in the courtyard of the L32 Building, for the 48-Stunden Neukoelln Festival, Berlin, Germany. 2007. Photos by Maria Leutner.

 

"Occupation bleue", Acrylic paint on floor, walls & columns. 
Tanglin Camp. Singapore Biennale 2006. Artistic Director: Fumio Nanjo. 
Courtesy by NAC, photos by Luke Tan.