Pauline Boudry (CH, 1972) & Renate Lorenz (DE, 1963)
Residency period: September-November 2024
During their three-month residency as part of the Main Residency Program, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz worked on the editing of their film installation Glass Is My Skin, which they shot in their exhibition at the Crystal Palace in Madrid in 2022. Designed specifically for the Crystal Palace, the installation Glass Is My Skin gives the building a voice that speaks about its colonial history and presence, in a song composed and interpreted by the Venezuelan musician Aérea Negrot, who died in 2023, with lyrics that have been written in collaboration with the artists. Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz presented a rough cut of this video at the Open Studios autumn session.
Based in Berlin, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz have been collaborating since 2007. With an artistic practice ranging from the production of objects and installations to filmmaking, the two artists attempt to choreograph the tension between the visibility and invisibility of bodies. Working from events, figures, and documents of the past, their film works offer a contemporary representation of these archives in the form of filmed performances, often imagined as a set design or installation. By revisiting these historical narratives through the prism of pathologization, camaraderie, glamour, and resistance, and through a staging that disrupts the conventions of spectatorship, the duo present bodies capable of transcending the ages and weaving links between them.
Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, La Becque, 2024, photo Pierre-Yves Borgeaud
Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, La Becque Open Studios, 2024, photo Aurélien Haslebacher