the artwork of françoise duvivier
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statement by françoise duvivier
Françoise Duvivier is a French artist working in a variety of mixed media, including collage (digital and traditional), doll art and masks. Her artwork has appeared in exhibitions, in books and on CDs throughout the world.
-In a controlled and supposedly normal world, it is impossible to live without making enormous concessions in order to survive and to die one day "empty"... As an artist, I like to express this smothering, and to parody it with/through the image in all its paroxysm, it is a direct language which speaks deeply about our primitive agitation.
-We hear, we feel, we see, before undergoing the education of the "knowledge-well-speech" and other codes of the good normal citizen.
-I express what does not go, and what does not go in this world - And I express it with/through feelings, emotions. I do not seek "to standardize" this art and I wish that it escape from me, therefore furious and to shout " NOT " with all that is inflicted to us and that one undergoes.
<-NO-> -This " NO " should be our first word in this life.
- the life could be marvellous, strong, but we did it "ugly" and "conventional".
- what we live, is not the "true life".
- I test to (re)live, to (re)feel through my visual world.
- For the majority, this visual world I create can appear crual, insane, pessimistic... and I pass from there but for me, it is used to me as claws to discharge my emotions. - I support any truth, nor no dogma, I say that one "chokes" in this named cell: "Standardized-life ".
-<a well made world for a well made life - or vice-versa>-
- It is always intense and marvellous to me to meet artists, or to see their works and which dared and dare "to shout".
- I worked with musicians in the field of the new musics, techno, experimental... in the heavy-metal, therefore... and recently, I worked with a scenario writer of science fiction, for his film "AgentZ" - to see Mariano Equizzi ...
-The galleries, the exhibitions in Salons, don't really interest me and I prefer to work with the others, to share emotions, to test what they can test, too. I then accept the support of "gallery" or other than for a "recreation" or to take "stock", to allow distancier oneself, or to meet "witnesses"...
- In the same way and that is included/understood, I do not have a country and I regard myself as being a multi-field and international artist.
- All to me is an experiment in this life and I think that through the new techniques, particularly the internet, we can live "the emotion disfigured" towards "a static and dangerous bureaucracy "
- It is ludic for me to be expressed with-through virtual networks and to feel another world here, another language where the "sensitivity", the "emotions" can be expressed ... - In the same way, I express myself with/through the digital ones.
-Everything may inspire me, as this moment, this one, gets a lot of feelings.
-I've been inspired by several artists, those of the Dadaist, Expressionist era, others like Arnulf Rainer, some performers, and the Butoh, too.
-I'm writing these words of Hijikata which may express my way of thinking.
We were the dark incarnation of the anger and the laughter of the Earth gods and the defiance of the irrational feelings that have been rudely abandoned and suppressed admidst the swift rationalizations and standardizations of all aspects of life... And especially those aspects of life accompanied by post-war, economic development and urbanization
-I'm interested in shamanism, too, but not thru a "new-age" or "politically-correct" way of thinking.
- below are some links to work I did these past years with artists, of which J.Lehmus, J.Bergin, Dive/Dirk Ivens, and other musicians and labels
- EGONE - (magazine) - (France) -
-<http://www.egone.net/artistes/duvivier.htm>
- Dolls - Artcite
GALLERY - (Canada) -
-<http://www.netcore.ca/~obscure/artist/dolls.html>
- CINEMA - "AGENTZ" - (Italy) -
-<http://www.fantascienza.it/agentz/creditz.htm>
-<http://www.delos.fantascienza.com/delos54/navigator/views.html>
- BOOK - with J.Lehmus - (Finland) -
-<http://www.art-bin.com/art/rlehmus.html>
- Book - CD
- Dive-Duvivier - (Belgium) -
-<http://www.dirkivens.com/>
-<http://www.dirkivens.com/discography/di.htm>
- Dolls - USA -
-<http://www.chemicalrealism.net>
- Label - Freedom in A vacuum - (Canada) -
-<http://www.stainedproductions.com/music/interviews/fiav.htm>
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