‘My practice is inhabited by elective affinities that make up the fictional community in which I work. Let’s say I’m a language interspeciesist with a slightly perverse bent. I address someone with something in order to secretly talk to someone else.’’ — Anne Bourse
Anne Bourse was born in Lyon in 1982. She lives and works in Paris. Of Anne Bourse’s work, swirling lines and letters that look like they came out of burlesque cartoons or psychedelic frescoes invade the surface of books, clothes and papers of all kinds. Although her practice is declined in different mediums, among which painting, drawing, as well as textile or textual productions, it is above all punctuated by the continuous movement of a writing of the self.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (DE), Galerie Édouard Manet, Gennevilliers (FR), Crèvecœur, Paris (FR), MOCO La Panacée, Montpellier (FR) - with Mimosa Echard.
Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR), Villa Empain, Brussels (BE), Fondation Ricard, Paris(FR), Frac Corsica, Corte (FR), Scheusal, Berlin (DE), Crédac, Ivry-sur- Seine (FR), CAC Brétigny, Brétigny- sur-Orge (FR), Frac Île de France, Paris (FR).

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