Gaele Braun

I was born near Paris in 1967. I live in Lyon, France, since 2005.
My work answers a personal necessity: simplify, cut, and remove all which is superfluous to keep only the main part. I recompose with diverse materials such as molded paper, ceramic... Assembling is my modus operandi and also a way to structure my thought. Little by little the echo, the imitation or the replica appears and allows me to visit what remains often unnoticed or something hidden and what remains to reveal.
“Tabula Rasa” is realized from shadows of glasses and other essentially transparent dining objects. In this project I try to pursue the dialectic between the presence of the object, the subject, its representation and the way to show it, answering to a constant necessity. It appears in the projected shadows that draw and model the work. And it is at this unbearable limit that it comes true and takes its entire dimension and its meaning.
I’m interested as different works as photograms of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, the book of Tanizaki Jun'ichirô : “l’éloge de l’ombre”, paintings of Simon Hantaï, “combustions” of Christian Jaccard, James Turrel, …

I was born near Paris in 1967
Graduate of Architecture DPLG Paris-Villemin.
I live and work in Lyon, France since 2005
Graduate of Beaux Arts Lyon 2014 DNSEP Arts

Solo exhibitions:

• 2010
Residence APF, «ce que je peux», Villeurbanne, France
• 2009
Vegetal installation in situ Spring days of Dijon, «Natural Teddy-Bunny», France
• 2008
Residence CCAS Gaz de France, Garden installation in situ « les cristallisées ». Menton, France
• 2005
Urban installation in situ. «Les monstres en ville §3», Aubervilliers. France
• 2004
Urban installation in situ. «Les monstres en ville §2», La Courneuve. France
• 2003
Urban installation in situ. «Les monstres en ville §1», La Grande Jauge à tri», La Courneuve. France
• 2002
Installation exposition of 200 portraits «Rencontres à Domicile», Cultural Center Jean Houdremont, La Courneuve. France

Group exhibitions (selection):

More on www.gaelebraun.com

2014
• «Table rase», « XS…XXelles » Galerie 116 art, Villefranche. France
2013
• «Table rase in situ» night Echo of the Biennial event of Lyon, Villeurbanne
2009
• «Progress(i)ons» Trees festival and Lights. Geneva. Switzerland
• « L’étranger », short-lived Installation, Arts of open air. Chadieu. France
2007
• «Protection urbaine», installations in situ. «L’art dans tous ses états: Vers des lieux communs». Center of Art: reservoirs. Limay. France
• «Douceurs de paill...