Marie-Jeanne Hoffner

Marie-Jeanne Hoffner was born in 1974 in Paris. She is based in Paris and Châteauroux (France). Since graduating in 1999 from the Nantes School of Art (ERBAN), she has shown her work in solo exhibitions in France (Ipso Facto Gallery, Nantes, 2003; Collège Marcel Duchamp, Châteauroux, 2001, Art Centre Les Dominicaines in Pont-L'évèque, 2005) as well as abroad (Arteaspoon gallery, Brussels, 2002; Glasgow Independent Studios, 2002, Linden art Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 2006, Cast Gallery Hobart, Tasmania, 2007, Galeria Ernesto Catena, Buenos Aires, 2007). She has also participated in group exhibitions in Rennes, Nantes, Glasgow, Amiens, Paris, and Malmö. Several residencies in France include those at the Synagogue de Delmes art centre, and Parc St-Léger art centre, while other intensive projects carried out during 2005 and 2007 include the Monash University visiting artist program in Melbourne and at the Sydney College of the Arts, as well as RIAA, international residency program in Argentina. Marie-Jeanne Hoffner’s drawings, wall drawings and architectural installations reflect a perception of space as map, living space and place for the body. Her translation of space is both physical and metaphysical. On one hand, lines, plans and volumes propose a concrete experience of space, whereas on the other, semantic superimposition and fake perspective suggest an imaginary space that doubles our first apprehension of reality. The layout, removal, transparency and folding of materials are recurrent notions in Hoffner’s work, allowing her to approach architecture through its structural elements. This combination of formal rigour and physicality makes Marie-Jeanne Hoffner’s work an example of lively practice both constructed and sensitive.

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Artists: Neville Gabie, Dryden Goodwin, Marie-Jeanne Hoffner, Dan Perjovschi, Leo Fitzmaurice, Donna Daley Clarke

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