Gaëlle Choisne

Other residents

To mark the Cities Week of the Dubai World Expo, Art Explora is exhibiting the works of eight internationally renowned French artists. Exploring the role of ecosystems in urban environments, these works are being presented simultaneously in several urban spaces, both in Dubai and Paris, in order to share the World Expo's artistic program with the widest possible audience.

Gaëlle Choisne 

Eat me (softly), 2021; If you come softly, poem by Audre Lorde

Courtesy of the artist and galerie Air de Paris, Romainville ; © Marc Domage

Work presented in the Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre metro station. 

Gaëlle Choisne 

Eat me (softly), 2021; If you come softly, poem by Audre Lorde

Courtesy of the artist and galerie Air de Paris, Romainville ; © Marc Domage

Work presented in front of the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo and on Jumeirah Road in Dubai. 

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Gaëlle Choisne 

Eat me (Recreation), 2021; Recreation, poem by Audre Lorde

Courtesy of the artist and galerie Air de Paris, Romainville ; © Marc Domage

Work presented in front of the France Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo.
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Eat me is a work of protocol and context. A poem by Audre Lorde is industrially engraved on local, seasonal and exotic fruit, like a tattoo. The engraving alters the fruit, which carries a message beyond its own finitude - ripening, rotting, dying. It traces the genesis of a memory in the manner of an offering, and becomes a place of perishable memory.

The artist's biography

Gaëlle Choisne was born in Cherbourg (France) in 1985, and lives and works in Paris and London. In her work, which combines Creole esoteric traditions, myths and popular culture, the artist addresses contemporary issues of catastrophe, resource exploitation and the vestiges of colonialism. Her work has been exhibited extensively in France and abroad, including at the Beirut Art Center for the 13th Sharjah Biennale (2017), the CAFA Art Museum, Beijing (2017) and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2020), and will be shown at the New Museum's Triennial from October 2021. She is the 2021 winner of the AWARE Award . Gaëlle Choisne is represented by galerie Air de Paris (Romainville) and Nicoletti (London).

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Discover the works of the seven other artists featured in the “ Other Inhabitants ” exhibition:

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This project is supported by the French Institute in the United Arab Emirates, JCDecaux, the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo and the RATP.

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