Hanna Rochereau (FR, 1995)
Residency period: September 2024
Born in 1995, Hanna Rochereau is a French artist living and working in Marseille, whose artistic practice questions consumerism, temptation, and absence. Articulating her research around the history of the reappropriation of desire, she embraces the constantly renewed frustrations of capitalism, the better to corrupt it. Between paintings of ghostly, timeless displays, and sculptures of nested boxes, she questions our daily aspirations, our need for ordinary idolatry and its sine qua non material consumption. Through her work, Rochereau invites viewers to reconsider the way in which products and artistic objects are promoted as consumer goods.
Active on Marseille’s contemporary art scene since 2020, she has been a resident at Ateliers de la Ville and co-founded the artist-run space Hasch. In parallel, her commitment has manifested itself through several exhibitions at Friche Belle de Mai (Triangle Astérides), Le Printemps de l’Art Contemporain, and a solo show at La Traverse and more recently at La Fonda in Biarritz. She has also been invited to showcase her work at Tonus and The Community in Paris, Collection Lambert in Avignon, Laurence and Friends in Geneva, Palazzina in Basel, Sentiment in Zurich, and Alienze in Lausanne. Rochereau completed an MA in Visual Arts – European Art Ensemble program at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne.
Continuing her recent research into the archive spaces that dominate the fashion world, Rochereau intends to take advantage of her EXECAL residency to create new paintings and a series of sculptures inspired by “archive rooms”, with a particular focus on modes of conservation and preservation (boxes, furniture, covers, display units, etc.). Oscillating between the superfluous and the necessary, these pieces, produced primarily for a solo exhibition scheduled for early 2025 in Paris, will lead us to constantly reassess what we see and what we don’t – what we want and what we need.
Hanna Rochereau, La Becque, 2024, photo Aurélien Haslebacher