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Aude Du Pasquier Grall, The Male Cycle N7

envoy enterprises
131 Chrystie Street, 212-226-4555
East Village / Lower East Side
April 25 - June 7, 2008
Reception: Friday, April 25, 6 - 8 PM
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« The Male Cycle N°7- I’m waiting for his birth” is a 22 minute-long video piece synchronously projected on two walls. A woman, 6 months pregnant and wielding a camera, encircles a naked man. She asks him to vary his poses as she takes pictures. Scenes from the video projection reveal trouble and confusion. What is at stake within the artist reflects on the situation, the setting and each participant. The perversion of the experience projected on the wall is suggestive: does she long for a child… a man? Does the work betray an incestuous longing? Lucas Albert’s music infuses the spectator with vibrations and rhythms. The result is an erotic and troubling work, filled with expectation and disillusion.

Aude du Pasquier Grall (b. 1974) was born in Paris, France, where she lives and works today. She earned a Diplôme National Supérieur d’Arts Plastiques from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, in 1996. Her work has been included in solo exhibitions at Artspace Rashinban, Toyko; Galerie Rouge 44, Paris; Les Chantiers Boîte Noire, Montpellier; Nuit Blanche, Cinéma l’Entrepôt, Paris; Galerie Arkos, Clermont- Ferrand, France; Miss China Beauty, Paris; and Galerie Quang, Paris. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de la Ville de Saint-Denis, France; Le Nouveau Casino, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Galerie d’Art Contemporain de l’Université de Toulouse-le Mirail; La Quinzaine du Cinéma, Bordeaux; Videoformes 2005, Clermont-Ferrand; and Luxe Gallery, New York.

She had been developing the series “The Male Cycle” since 1998. The project explores the concept of how female artists portray their male models.

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