Pertusot was primarily interested in the buildings and spaces undergoing transformation, partly abandoned and partly re-created – located "in between", along with their history (official and unofficial, personal, subjective), memories and stories of residents. The artist visualized her research with, among others: photographs, drawings, notes, creation of small objects. During the residency Aurélie Pertusot had numerous meetings with local residents, artists, as well as urban planners, urban activists, and specialists from various fields – we would like to thank everyone for their time, wilingness to share knowledge, memories and inspirations!
Due to the development of the pandemic, the residence of Aurélie Pertusot has finished before its due date and will be continued in 2021.
Excerpts from Aurélie Pertusot’s notebook:
Thursday, October 22. ghost houses - revitalization - a face behind the window in an abandoned building. amazement.
Wednesday, November 4. the walls speak, they are full of words. tomorrow already, they will have disappeared - industrial paternalism is crumbling - ars memoria - importance of water and wind.
Saturday, November 7. sharing memories - sensitive perceptions of the city linked to lived experience - emotional and affective relationship to architecture.
Friday, November 13. each community conceives its own specific ways of memorizing but also of forgetting embarrassing facts - polyphonies of memory - polymemories.
Fragments of visual memories:
1. Gdansk's places, drawing on paper, 21x 29,7 cm
2. Empty houses - full houses, scraped postcard series, research
3. the last bulding, drawing on paper, 21x 29,7 cm
Born in 1983 in France, Aurélie Pertusot graduated from the Nancy and Bourges Schools of Art in 2007 and 2018. Visual and sound artist, she regularly collaborates with visuals artists, architects and musicians. Her work was recently nominated for the Neuköllner Kunstpreis in Berlin and the André Evard Prize. In 2019 she was awarded a residency at the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation in Germany with her duo-collaboration Les Trotteuses. Her works have been presented in art centers, galleries, associations and institutions in France, Germany, Luxembourg, Italy, Denmark and Sweden.
Residency of Aurélie Pertusot takes place in the frames of artist residency exchange program initiated in 2011 by Apollonia – European Art Exchanges association in Strasbourg, City of Strasbourg, City of Gdańsk and LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art. Previous editions of this bilateral exchange program involved the following participants from France: Ahmet Dogan, Patrick Bogner, Jia Qiu, Dorothee Haller, Yiumsiri Vantanapindu, Stéphane Clor, Hélène Thiennot, Elise Alloin. Among Polish artists working in Strasbourg were: Dominika Skutnik, Dorota Walentynowicz, Michał Pecko, Angelika Fojtuch, Grzegorz Stefański, Urszula Kozak, Eliza Proszczuk, Julita Wójcik, Patrycja Orzechowska.
In 2020 the artist residency of Barbara Gryka in Strasbourg was planned, however due to the epidemiological situation it has been postponed to 2021.