Alix Boillot

Alix Boillot (1992) creates sculptures, installations, set designs, performances and editions. What they all have in common is the quest for a certain side of our humanity – romantic, mystical, playful – which is attached to that which has no other value than the one we attach to it. In other words, it’s about gathering tangible traces of our attachment to the sacred here on earth. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, her work has been presented at the Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Lafayette Anticipations (Paris), Fondation Ricard (Paris), Saint Ignace church during the Nuit Blanche (Paris), Plastique Danse Flore (Versailles), Les Subs (Lyon), CND (Pantin), CNDC (Angers), Festival d’Automne (Paris) and Festival d’Avignon. Among her many collaborations, she has worked with César Vayssié, Ivana Müller, Ola Maciejewska, Robert Cantarella, Dominique Gilliot, Anaïs de Courson, Émilie Labédan and Julien Lacroix.

At Villa Medici, Alix Boillot is deepening her research into water and the containers (natural or artificial) that define its form. From lakes to fountains, water settles heavily, horizontally. His research extends to the water that overflows these rational limits: holy water, that of the rituals of every religion; the water of springs that irrigates numerous myths; the damp, moving souls of melancholy. Rome, the birthplace of the Tiber and a master of water management, the Villa Medici, its gardens and pools, and the ceremonies of the nearby Vatican, provide the ideal terrain for research and experimentation into this poetic and political body.