Marie-Ange Guilleminot
Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Kimonos, mémoire de Hiroshima, 2005, Courtesy of the artist, Photo © Michel-Ange Seretti
Marie-Ange Guilleminot, born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1960, graduated from the Villa Arson in Nice in 1985. She has lived and worked in Paris since 1987. She exhibited at the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris in 1994 in the exhibition L'Hiver de l'amour.
In 1997, the artist was invited to the Venice Biennale where she received an honorary mention for her Salon de Transformation, she presented her work at the Lyon Biennale and took part in the project "Skulptur projekte in Munster" in Germany. One of her major works, The Screen, was inaugurated that same year in Japan. This piece has since evolved in different contexts until its last presentation at La Monnaie de Paris in 2018.
She has been represented by the Chantal Crousel Gallery in Paris, the Erna Hecey Gallery in Luxembourg and the Masataka Hayakawa Gallery in Japan. She quickly acquired a European dimension with exhibitions in Germany, the United Kingdom, and then internationally: the United States, Israel... and in particular Japan.
Everyday objects, clothes, books and places to live, the works of Marie-Ange Guilleminot are agents of transformation for those who meet them, wear them, use them, and for themselves. Their performative potential opens paths for the deployment of bodies in the space of the relationship and aims to register our gestures, often our rituals, in the conscious world of attention.