Bianca Bondi

Bianca Bondi (1986, South Africa) is a visual artist based in Paris. Her practice involves activating or elevating everyday objects using chemical reactions. The materials she works with are chosen for their transformative potential or their intrinsic properties; they underline the interconnectedness of things in the world, their transience, and reveal the cycles of life and death. Her works have been exhibited notably at Lafayette Anticipations (2023), Fondation Louis Vuitton (2021), Casino Luxembourg (2020), and in the Lyon 2019, Busan 2020, and Thailand 2021 Biennales.

Her residency project is inspired by the concept of rewilding, a branch of conservation biology. Working with local actors, Bondi’s main aim is to broaden her language in the visual arts, which already incorporates life at the molecular level, to include other more developed living elements. She hopes to deepen her research on Roman Antiquity, and particularly on sanctuaries, in order to try out new immersive installations that encourage the presence of life among forms inspired by the past. At the same time, she intends to work on her first monograph.

Portrait © Flora Mathieu