After training in the plastic arts, Gwendoline Robin has been building up a body of work for over 20 years which, somewhere between installation and performance, puts her body in play and in danger. Fire and explosives, as well as glass, earth and water - all unstable materials with their own laws - are the elements she confronts in ephemeral actions that seem to densify time and space.
Since 2005, she has presented her performances at international performance and dance festivals in Europe, Canada, Chile, Australia and Asia.
Associate artist in 2007 at Les Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels, she met Ida De Vos with Les Dimanches de la Danse. In 2009, she will be working with Ida De Vos on her research into movement and displacement in space.
She has made several collaborations with artists from other disciplines: Garrett List for music, Karin Vyncke, Pierre Droulers and Boris Charmatz for dance, and soon with choreographer Louise Vanneste. In the course of these collaborations, the desire to weave his performative vocabulary into a more dramaturgical structure has become more apparent.
In 2013, she surrounded herself with a working team: dancer Ida De Vos, lighting designer Simon Siegmann and sound designer Olivier Renouf, to further question her research and create the performance J'ai toujours voulu rencontrer un volcan presented at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in 2014 in Brussels. A landscape gradually marked by events of almost telluric force: a journey in which the space shared by the artist and spectators opens and closes under the pressure of bodies, materials, sound and light.
His latest creation A.G.U.A integrates scientific research with artistic research, and more specifically with research into the relationship between Earth, Water and the Universe. This project premiered in May 2018 at Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels).
Alongside her work as an artist, Gwendoline Robin teaches plastic and three-dimensional research at the Tournai Academy of Fine Arts and performance art at ESA Le 75 and La Cambre in Brussels.
Gwendoline Robin works with Grand Studio on her projects.
