Fabienne Audéoud

Fabienne Audéoud lives and works in Paris after a dozen years in London and a twoyear residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. It’s after a M.A. in fine art at Goldsmiths that her work, until then mostly musical, re-focused on visual art practices and developed in the 90’s British art scene. Her body of work has been widely shown in independent spaces as well as in major international institutions. It includes paintings, videos, a collection of perfumes and various performances. It is focused on power relations within language, gender and the politics of representation. She is interested in ‘what a piece is doing’ and what is being performed in terms of cultural, sociological and political impacts. Rather than the illustration of critical positions or the demonstration of a position of knowledge, she prefers to find or create a space for interventions, where an action is possible, with what Robert Garnett describes as ‘the logic of the joke, a disruptive affect rather than an ironic commentary’.