Alexia Chevrollier, born in 1989, graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Dijon and the University of Paris-Sorbonne in art theory research. Her work has been shown in several group and solo exhibitions in France (Centre Pompidou-Metz, Le Parc Saint Léger-Centre d'art contemporain, ART-O-RAMA, Galerie Interface, La Cantine d'art contemporain, etc.) and abroad (Les Brasseurs art contemporain, Centre culturel Métaculture). The artist has also been a winner and finalist of several awards (winner of the 2018 CRAC Young Audience Award and the 2013 Côte-D'or Young Talents Award, finalist of the 2013 Talents Contemporains of the François Schneider Foundation, etc.) and has completed several research and creation residencies (La Villa Belleville, Light Cone, etc.).

 

Alexia Chevrollier is an artist who shapes new plastic and aesthetic territories around the notion of time and movement and the history of matter. She articulates a work of sculpture, painting, video and installation, each time questioning our perceptions of matter. The projects that the artist develops are also a dialogue between art and crafts. Through the plurality of mediums used, Alexia Chevrollier collaborates with a wide spectrum of French artisans, sometimes coming into contact with almost extinct professions, such as that of the master charcoal burner. This quest around gesture and know-how is a new way of circumventing an industrialized system thus mixing universes.

 

She is fascinated by the organicity of each element but especially the reaction of the material to the gestures of the artisans that she will draw in the manner of a choreographer in order to accompany its potential transformations. She thus opposes the modern linear conception of a controlled know-how and thus pushes for experimentation.