Céline Ducret
1992*, Geneva, Switzerland
Céline Ducret (1992) she-her, reflects on the human-made impact on post-industrial ecologies and their tangible traces. Her artistic practice acknowledges the inherent agency of the material itself, with an emphasis on the textile medium. In her installations, a change of state and scale occurs, between the monumental and the imperceptible, the tangible and the virtual. She develops alternative histories to enable new perspectives and develop spaces to reflect on the interactions of ecosystems, fluid borders and transformative mutual relationship.
Céline’s work envisions a transition from a human-centered perspective to a multi-species worldview. She explores the relationship between „nature“ and humans in the past, present and possible future. Through rigorous experimentation to alter, modify, stretch, and compress the significance of matter, she reveals contemporary fossils of our modern, materialistic reality.
Graduating with an MA in Mixed Media Textiles and Cultural and Historical Studies from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2019, she has developed a research methodology based on her bodily experience of spaces, recording sounds, images and drawings, sometimes in collaboration with scientists. Her research has taken her to various aquatic environments such as the Kyzulsu Glacier in Pamir (TK), the Alps and Greenland. In 2022, she was awarded the PolArts (ProHelvetia & Swiss Polar Institute) research grant which explores ways of research between arts and science. She has presented her work in Austria, Finland and Switzerland.