Anaïs Touchot
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Year of Birth
Country of Birth
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2021
1987
Romania
Sandwich
From “psyzzeria” to “pedilove” via “doga”
Anaïs Touchot’s environments are the results of the meeting between two spaces with usually distant uses (the psychoanalyst's office and the pizzeria, the foot-bath and the love hotels). These installations reproduce gather dogs who love yoga, cats who sell their sweetness, and an audience whose status oscillates between spectator and customer. It can thus be offered to enjoy a fountain of youth in an open bar; to get a manicure inspired by masterpieces of modern art, or to shop in the lingerie or funeral department of a shopping centre of odds and ends.
Elsa Vettier, 2019
Using recycled materials, the artist constructs all of the environments — from furniture to signage — which will welcome visitors. Everything is designed in order to create interactions with the public invited to engage in a conversation with the artist so that she carries out their portrait on a pizza dough, or to immerse their face in the "facial sauna". Through a multitude of indications and interjections directly written on the wall or painted on wooden panels, the artist plays with the marketed language that inhabits shopping centres or spaces dedicated to the well-being. - Elsa Vettier
above: exhibition views, QUiNTESSENCE PAS CHÈRE, 2021, Galerie des Territoires Partagés, Marseille, Installation from various recovery elements
above: exhibition views, MAUVE ZONE FRAC BRETAGNE - ART NORAC AWARD 2021
Liste Year
Year of Birth
Country of Birth
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2020
1987
Romania
Sandwich
Anaïs Touchot is a builder, one that respects the previous lives of her materials. Directed by the search for an informal economy, she connects her works to their location and sometimes encourages a curious, nosy audience, even during production. Sometimes, she works closely to the street, benefiting from a mutual influence, seizing the street's substance, it sociability and inevitable instinct for territory.
Anaïs Touchot sees in body-building a way which opens up avenues of responses. Her analysis of fitness is especially subtle: over and above being a question of statuary, looking at the body is a worldwide preoccupation. It is also one of the rare places where a women can show virility. The idea of opening a gym started to take shape: authorized virility, togetherness, friendship and cohesion were forever being emphasized.
Q&A with Anaïs Touchot
Relax au Centre commercial, 2019
4min 52, vocal improvisation by Anaïs Touchot on sound piece by Vincent Malassis