Pascale Baud

For many years I worked without trying to exhibit. There were nevertheless small and "big" exhibitions. Like being selected with a group of friends for a parallel exhibition at the Dokumenta 8 in Kassel in 1987: International exhibition "Gruppenkunstwerk" (collective art work). Then long years with my Daily Geologies (work realized over 12 years on a day-to-day basis), unexhibitable, given the concept itself = each day the "layer" or deposit covers that of the day before - in the end the paper and paint form a block of several dozen centimeters or more. I continued to work, to experiment, to fill in notebooks as if I were filling in a perpetual diary, to wander from one field to another: photography, writing, then to the design of artists' books (where I learned a little about bookbinding). Since a few years with Internet I show my work. Virtual encounters that have led to real exhibitions (UK Polarama), in Australia and also in France.
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How to define my work?

Color?
Black & White?
Materials?
Or simply graphic work evoking sometimes engraving?
A game of back and forth between all that.
A bipolarity of expression sometimes confusing that can unfold in long spirals of writing to bu...

University (art departement) of Aix-Marseille, France