Pauline Beaudemont

born in 1983, lives and works between London and Geneva. BA, ECAL Lausanne / Switzerland. MA, HEAD Genève / Switzerland.

— Exhibitions:

2013:- ’Gogo Papier’, MJ Gallery, Geneva.- ‘Silver Saddle (title tdb)’, group show Live In Your Head, Geneva.- ’!e First and the Last Folding’, Swiss Church, London.

2012:- ’60 artistes se mobilisent contre le sida’, AIDES fundraising, Grand Palais, Paris.- Prix La Palette during la FIAC, Paris.- ‘Bold Tendencies’, PAMI, Hanna Barry’s project space London.- ‘Toucher avec les yeux’, exhibition for Le Corbusier’s Maison Blanche 100 years anniversary.- Salon des jeunes artistes de Montrouge, Paris.

2011: - Film+Design Festival, Eindhoven DL.- Wandering Bears collective, Margate Photo Festival, UK.- ’Art of Attraction’ F.L.O.A.T. Gallery, NYC USA.

2010:- ’G/IRL women in emerging digital culture’, ArtSpace AceEdition, NYC USA.- Director / Curator of project space Pauline’s, Brooklyn USA.- ’Dorade in les Jardins’, Villa Noailles, Hyères FR.- ’Dorade Revue Galante’, l’Espace d’en Bas, Paris FR.

2009: - ’Eallra Helgena elfen’, MarySmith&Friends gallery, Brooklyn USA.

2006:- ’Photographies d’Afrique du Sud’, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich CH.

—Grants, Books and side projects:

- Le Corbusier Foundation’s Grant for Artistic Creation 2013, Chandigarh, India.- ’STRIP’, photography book published by Hard Copy and HEAD, Geneva. - ’GoGo scene’ documentary "lm with musician Kindness. - ’Downward Dog’, documentary "lm for MOCA Los Angeles .

Installation of Audience, photograms, concrete blocks, glass sheets, variable dimension.

View of the exhibition !e "rst and the last folding, February 2013, with Martin Soto Climente, at the Swiss Church of London, UK.

Cindy, Maurice, Geneviève and Miguel, 2013, photograms on pearl paper, 12,7 x 17,8 cm. each.

From the series Audience, 40 photograms, imprints of hand gestures through light on photographic paper.

If You Put A Roof On..., view of the installation at Bold Tendencies for PAMI, London, September 2012. two projectors, "ve monitors, sound system, concrete landscaping kerbs.

Stills from If You Put A Roof On..., 2012, seven16 mm "lms, 3:20 min. each, continuous sound.

Composed of 7 sequence-takes shot in Le Corbusier’s Maison Blanche, his "rst constructed house in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, the performer is a professional Dance Hall Queen. !e sound track is composed of slow down footwork music sounds, distorted with increased infra-bass.

Stills from Châsse, 2013, 16 mm videos, 2:50 min each, loop.

Two sequence-takes shot on location at the Swiss Church of London.

Waking dream (Tapis ascentionnel), 2013, Xerox paper, balloons, helium, threads, 150 x 250 cm.

Reproduction on a 1/1 scale of a persian carpet on photocopy paper. !e helium balloons are graduately decreasing until the paper is randomly laid out on the #oor.

Les Idôles, 2012, six hand-made slabs of concrete, 40 x 200 cm.

!e ghosts of Véronique, 2012, two photograms of hand gestures, two hand carved slices of solid Sipo, glass sheets, 180 x 60 x 60 cm.

Stills from Downward Dog, 2011, vidéo, 8 min.

Film staring Mélodie Mousset in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Enis House and L.A. MoCA.

Excerpts from STRIP, 2012, Newspaper, hard cover. O$set, 29 x 18,5 cm, 120 p., 1000 colour photographs. 300 original editions and 30 collector editions. ISBN 978-2-9700713-4-1. Design Régis Tosetti. Collection: Hard-Copy, Delphine Bedel.