This year, the artist Marie de Villepin debuted Visions of Collisions, a multi-disciplinary performance created in collaboration with the choreographer Anatole Hossenlopp. As part of visionary Benjamin Millepied’s Paris Dance Project, the dynamic project fused color, sound, and movement for a comprehensive study on the nuances of human creativity and vulnerability. Villepin carries with her a childhood surrounded by influential musicians, poets, and filmmakers, resulting in a compelling sixth sense for transforming visceral emotion into poignant art.
In March, a poetic show at Villepin Art Gallery in Hong Kong culminated by the painter, marking her first solo presentation in Asia. Titled “Murmuration,” the presentation of drawings and paintings found inspiration in the lyrical dancing of birds across the sky. One month later, in April, Villepin unveiled “Behind the Sun” at Today Art Museum in Beijing, joining an assortment of dramatic works which contemplated the dualities inherent in the celestial force, as well as our ardent desire for its nourishing energy and warmth. Throughout her oeuvre, provocative titles such as Safe as Milk (2023), Venus Fly Trap (2018), and Primitive liar, aborted frame (2016) have corresponded to stirring abstract figures and colorful expressions of fragile yet tenacious ecosystems.
Whitewall spoke with the artist to hear about freedom of creation, engraving paintings with a soundtrack, and disrupting the senses for maximum vulnerability.
