aurélien finance
Aurélien Finance lives and works in Mulhouse. He graduated from the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) with the congratulations of the jury (DNSEP 2018).
Dramatized, Aurélien Finance’s work is built around absurd and invented stories, inspired by reality, myths or tales. Whether his performances in which he stages himself, or creations with colorful shapes, his works turns away the textile world by the deconstruction of traditional codes. He practices ancestral skills to experience their limits in a playful approach borrowing humor and poetry. Embroidering, crocheting and knitting interest him for their performative, repetitive and cathartic aspects. Then, these creations become transitional objects from which are born imaginary characters, organic beings, growths rescued from a forgotten memory … His dyslexic (disorientation of orderly writing) is displayed in his work as an asset. It opens a thought through the image which finds its meaning in its entirety.
“And now the bananas are in socks.
Experience gives birth to absurdity. The bones were broken by this performance.
Surrounded by nature. The emotion takes shape. It’s fear.
[…] So I think I’m imprisoning myself, he was drowning in his suits when suddenly… never woke up. It was then that he said that of yesterday; never open a teaspoon with a cutter, you don’t lose anything serious …” Aurélien Finance
2022
Fernet Branca Foundation as part of Pop-up Galerie, Saint-Louis
Champigny sur Marne Biennial of Contemporary Art
2021
– Performance, La Kunsthalle, contemporary art center, Mulhouse
– Performance « ça ira bien chez moi », Wallpaper Museum, Rixheim
Philarmonie ! , Réseau Dédale, Mulhouse
Une Famille formidable, Historical Museum of Mulhouse
– Performance “Moi aussi je peux le faire“, The Kunsthalle, contemporary art center, Mulhouse
N’ouvrez jamais une cuillière à café avec un cutter, Galerie Robet Dantec, Belfort
2020
– Performances as part of the Summer of Mulhouse Museums programme, Musée Electropolis
2019
– Performance as part of the Nuit de la Sinne, Théâtre de la Sinne, Mulhouse
Art3F exhibition, Mulhouse
‘Chaire Grande-Mère’, Le Bôcal, Mulhouse
Performance,basse couture event at the Motoco, Mulhouse
2018
Performance, The Aubette 1928’th 90 years, Strasbourg
2022
Regionale 23, Regional Contemporary Art Fund of Alsace, Sélestat
Art Fair Dijon, Galerie Robet Dantec, Dijon
Luxembourg Art Week, Galerie Robet Dantec, Luxembourg
2021
Régionale22, La FABRIKculture, Hegenheim
Artists’ garden, as part of the European Heritage Days, Fort de la Justice, Belfort
Public Gardens, La Hear, Strasbourg
2020
émergences #2, Galerie Robet Dantec, Belfort
Artists’ garden, Fort de la Justice, Belfort
2019
Tu veux que je te fasse un dessin, Le Séchoir – Art en mouvement, Mulhouse
Les Grandes eaux, Galerie Art’Course, Strasbourg
Salon Tex-World, re-edition of ‘Réplica, Paris
Mulhouse 019, Contemporary Art Biennial, Mulhouse
«Réplica», Biennale of design of Saint Etienne
Eleven Steens, Bruxelles
“Collectible”, Design art fair, Bruxelles
2018
The 20 years of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Museum of Strasbourg (catwalk)
“Intermèdes”, La Filature, Mulhouse (scenography)
2017
“Vêtement de travail”, Biennale of design of Saint Etienne
2016
“Paysages”, Wallpaper Museum, Rixheim
2015
Galerie Modulab, Metz
2021
Cliché residency in partnership with the Pôle Musée Mulhouse Sud Alsace (supported by DRAC Grand EST).
2021
Public commission for Soléa transport/ graphic design
Artistic collaboration with the ONE STEP brand for the SPRING/SUMMER season
