Gaelle COGNÉE

> Route 2024

Born in 1988, Gaëlle Cognée gradu­ated from the École Na­tionale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and the École Na­tionale Supérieure des Arts de Paris-Cergy. Re­cog­nized for fa­vor­ing her prac­tice in col­lab­or­at­ive pro­jects, in 2009 she ini­ti­ated the ex­hib­i­tion “Pla­fond”, which fo­cused on in situ cre­ation. A con­tex­tual ap­proach to place which is re­flec­ted in his per­sonal work, mainly fo­cused on video, pho­to­graphy, writ­ing and per­form­ance. To cre­ate, the artist draws in­spir­a­tion from places where he is not ex­pec­ted. She is in­spired by the stor­ies of these places and His­tory, through dif­fer­ent forms of storytelling.
Gaëlle Cognée was in res­id­ence at the FRAC in 2021. There, she worked on a video pro­ject there which high­lighted the myth of Joan of Arc. The pro­ject is based on col­lab­or­at­ive work through ex­ist­ing or fan­tas­ized stor­ies of the his­tory of Joan of Arc with the aim of of­fer­ing a non-lin­ear and non-chro­no­lo­gical ver­sion of her story.
In par­al­lel with the Art en Chapelle bi­en­nial, in 2024 she will hold the second per­sonal ex­hib­i­tion of her ca­reer, at 19 CRAC in Montbéliard.