JENNIFER CAUBET

Born in 1982 in Tonneins, France
Lives and works in Aubervilliers, France
http://jennifercaubet.com/

Jennifer Caubet graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2008 after also studying in Toulouse, Barcelona and Tokyo. Thanks to singular productions with specialists, engineers, architects and companies, Jennifer Caubet begins a work of reflection on, in and around space, through sculpture, installation and drawing. The forms and lines that Jennifer Caubet deploys, reenacts or poses in the spaces she crosses, inaugurate the place of the work and the exhibition as territories of relationships not only constructed but to be constructed.

Recently, Jennifer Caubet took part in the Anglet Biennial and the second edition of the Nouveau Printemps festival in Toulouse. Her work has been in solo show at URDLA in Villeurbanne (2023), FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA in Bordeaux and Cyclop in Milly-la-Forêtl (2022), FRAC Occitanie in Montpellier (2018), Instants Chavirés in Montreuil (2015), and BF15 in Lyon (2013). Among the group shows in which the artist has participated: the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Brest, Le Creux de l’Enfer, the Maréchalerie in Versailles, the Kunsthalle in Basel, at the Chalet Society, the Chapelle Saint-Nicolas in Pluméliau and the Jousse Entreprise gallery. She has been invited to take part in numerous residency programs, including Ateliers des Arques, the Christoph Merian Foundation, Vent des forêts, the Tanneries art center, the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon and CIRVA – Centre international du verre et des arts plastiques in Marseille. Her work is part of the collections of Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Centre national des arts plastiques – CNAP, FRAC Occitanie – Montpellier and Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.

Jennifer Caubet is the laureate of the Art [ ] Collector 2023 prize and will have a solo show at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in autumn 2024.

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Over the last few years Jennifer Caubet has focused on increasingly complex questions related to space, particularly its occupation and representation. This is all but explicit in the titles of some of her 2009 installations such as Stratégie d’occupation des sols (Land Use Strategy, although in French the word « occupation » as the same military connotation as in English) and Z.A (Zone d’Action). Caubet conceives the occupation of space as « a conquest ». Her approach to making art and more generally to being in the world, is political. […]

Marie Chênel
atrtpress n°423, juin 2015

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