MARIE-CAROLINE & DAVID HOMINAL (CH/FR)
Residency period: November – December 2022
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French-Swiss choreographer Marie-Caroline Hominal trained as a dancer at the Schweizerische Ballettberufsschule in Zurich, then at the Rambert School of Ballet & Contemporary Dance in London, where she joined the National Youth Dance Company. Her artistic practice includes text, music, dance, performance and video and has led to numerous collaborations in Switzerland and abroad. The formats of her works are usually determined by circumstances or themes, but they all share the same universe, a baroque world in which identities become blurred, and the tragic and the comic merge. It can sometimes be darker, tending towards murky ceremonies, which are sometimes eccentric, sometimes more melancholic, revealing the disquiet and unease hiding behind the make-up and glitz.
Born in 1976 in France, David Hominal lives and works in Berlin (Germany). Through a myriad of artistic mediums ranging from film to performance, sculpture and painting, Hominal displays a corpus of work based on both the limits and possibilities of transforming contemporary art. He perceives his work as a whole, despite the diversity of forms that it encompasses, in which painting is seen as a common denominator or a conceptual link. He appears to ask himself how to paint, or indeed, how no longer to paint today. In this sense, he does not hesitate to question the history of art, stretching from the tradition of still lifes to the more recent abstraction in painting and the ready-made, calling into play other creative domains such as dance, music and popular culture. It is in the context of a reflexive attitude on the idle gesture of the artist and his ability or indeed his inability to create, that his work evolves.
After Two birds at swim, at birds two swim, at two birds swim,… presented in 2012 at the Festival de la Bâtie in Geneva, David Hominal and Marie-Caroline Hominal collaborated on a new piece during their residency. Both artists, brother and sister, with distinct and confirmed backgrounds, they put their daily exchanges into practice to imagine the piece Hominal / Hominal, which was subsequently presented at the Pavillon ADC in Geneva and at the Arsenic in Lausanne.
David Hominal and Marie-Caroline Hominal’s residency was offered by La Becque and Centre culturel suisse de Paris.
Marie-Caroline & David Hominal, photo Lukas Beyeler
Marie-Caroline & David Hominal, La Becque Open Studios, photo Aurélien Haslebacher
Marie-Caroline & David Hominal, Hominal / Hominal, photo Annik Wetter