Paola Siri Renard
Paola Siri Renard (°1993, Paris) is a visual artist.
Paola Siri Renard’s practice investigates Western architecture, natural processes and collective imaginary. Through appropriation of prevailing architectural archives and defense narratives; her transitional-state sculptures explore metamorphosis, bodies disintegrating and morphing into fictional constellations. She designs her installations as devices of displacement between centuries, between worlds and their myths. Renard’s work questions the treatment of legacy, its dissemination and the exclusionary underpinnings of specific identities - echoing her mixed heritage history.
BIO
Paola Siri Renard studied at Tokyo Geidai (2016) and graduated from the École des Beaux-Art Paris (2017) in the class of Ann Veronica Janssens. She continued at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2019-2021) in the class of Gregor Schneider, Rita McBride, Koenraad Dedobbeleer and was a resident at HISK Belgium (2022-2023). She was nominated for the Bourse Révélations Emerige 2022 (Paris, FR) and commissioned by Publiek Park 2023 (Antwerp, BE). Installations and performances have been shown at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (Recklinghausen, DE), De Appel (Amsterdam, NL), Dash (Kortrijk, BE), Fondation Fiminco (Paris, FR), Krone Couronne - contemporary art centre (Biel, CH), Galeria Jaqueline Martins (Brussels, BE), Institut Français (Madrid, ES), Art Biesenthal (Berlin, DE), La Maréchalerie - CAC (Versailles, FR), among others.
The residency of Paola Siri Renard is supported by SOFAM.