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Béryl Coulombié

Béryl Coulombié was born in Montpellier and lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2023 with honors.

Her work advocates a transdisciplinary approach to the arts. The artist combines dance, performance, and object creation (sculpture, costume, printing). She is interested in the stage and exhibition spaces as places for creating new poetic systems. Her piece Fontaine (2023) is the first performance to be included in the national collections of the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Her work has been presented at the INHA (Paris 2nd arrondissement), the Paul-Eluard Museum (Saint-Denis), 10-rue-saint-luc (Paris 18th arrondissement), the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, and as part of the Festival d'Automne (Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Paris 6th), the Plastique Danse Flore festival (Potager du Roi, Versailles), and the (Re)mix festival (La Pop, Paris 19th).

 

As part of the Fabrique des Arts residency, the artist will work on creating a new solo piece, Somebody else would have broken both of her arms. The piece stems from the artist's desire to work from the fragmented, discontinuous and layered form of her inner monologue. This inner monologue intertwines action verbs, reminiscences of song lyrics and poems, programmatic thoughts, addresses to absent interlocutors, and words extracted from a visual or auditory environment.

These fragments of words constitute the text of a solo piece that is both spoken and danced. ‘Somebody else would have broken both of her arms’ particularly explores the notion of the present and seeks to invent a particular realism that explodes and branches out into mental space, the field of action and somatic imagination. The ‘set’ for the piece will include a series of wet sculptures installed in the audience area at the outer edge of the stage.