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Domitille Martin

Street art / Circus / Puppetry
Apr. 
 Jul. 2025

Presentation

Sculptor Domitille Martin works in a variety of materials and creates installations in galleries, theatres and unconventional spaces. She graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2015 and went on to study at the School of Visual Arts in Rio de Janeiro. Her nature-inspired forms explore metamorphoses which can be animal, plant, mineral or human. She is the founder, with partners from the worlds of dance and circus arts, of Collectif Maison Courbe and collaborates with performance artists to bring her installations to life. As the winner of the 2020 Pierre Gautier-Delaye prize, she completed a one-year residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Through her work, Domitille Martin explores connections between visual and performance art, circus apparatus and scenography, placing her relationship with the materials she employs at the centre of the creative process.


Project

Mondes Mouvants

Mondes Mouvants (Moving Worlds) considers plant fibre as part of Japanese festival parades. Domitille Martin is interested in the forms plants take as part of these parades; both as a material and as a symbol in dances whose movements embody crops and harvests, especially rice. She aims to learn more about these masked rituals, their choreographies and the related crafts, which she sees as a way of becoming one with the environment and reconnecting with ancestral arts. These parades reveal our ability to metamorphose and adapt to the world around us, as well as the multiple forms that plant materials can take. Her research considers the footprint we leave on Earth, the repercussions of our artistic acts and the stories told by these parades. Mondes Mouvants is a continuation of her work on matter, space and the body, which she hopes to enrich through her study of Japanese culture.


Crédits

Portrait: © Mathilde Sirvart Simonian

-1 Œuvre en fibre de lin, Domitille Martin © Chris Daeppen
-2 La tornade, Domitille Martin et Alexis Mérat © Domitille Martin
-3 Mue en papier washi, Domitille Martin, Inbal Ben Haim et Setouchi Circus Factory © Inbal Ben Haim

-4 Œuvre en fibre de lin, Domitille Martin © Alessandra Carosi