Maïder Fortuné

Maïder Fortuné
Period: 2009-2010
Profession: Plastician
“Between movement and suspense, the image, seized of decoy/ enigma at the crossroads of recording (technical, psychic) and its presentation (present of the projection, presence of the viewer)/ fleeting visions, persistent shadows/ figures of anamnesis, clutches of memory/ interlocking paradoxical times/ traversing thick, vertical durations/ variations, scans, sweeps/ wunderblock… ”
After studying literature and theatre at the Jacques Lecoq school, Maïder Fortuné joined Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, and turned her attention to the visual arts. Her work is represented by Martine Aboucaya Gallery in Paris. Several works have been acquired by the Fond National d’Art Contemporain, the FMAC, the FRAC Alsace and Haute Normandie, the Centre Georges Pompidou and private collections. She has received a number of grants and residencies, including Allocation de recherche du Cnap, Villa Kujoyama, Fondation du Japon, Résidence Hors les murs, Toronto… In 2009, her work was presented in the following exhibitions
Elles@centre pompidou , Paris,
Dans la nuit, des images , Grand Palais, Paris,
Myth of chilhood , CCA Majorca, Loop art fair, Barcelona
, Actual fears, CAN, Switzerland
, Remote Viewing: New Video Art from Europe , Los angeles, Centre d’arte Santa Monica, festival
Paris-Berlin-Madrid , Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin,
edificio de tabacalera, Madrid… ”
In a dark collapse, glimmers of memory appear, ghosts wave lightly: “What visions in the dark of light!”, “What visions in the shadowless dark of light and shadow!” Nathalie Léger,
Samuel Beckett’s Silent Lives.