Subterranean Land

This residency is supported by the Seine-Saint-Denis Department.

Auriane Preud’homme’s (born 1992, lives and works in Les Lilas) practice spans performance art, sculpture, video and writing, with a particular focus on popular and vernacular culture. Her work draws on hallmarks of culture and media, ranging from reality television, tabloids and science fiction to classical myths and literature. She investigates various valences of orality and the slippages between materiality and language. She is editorial and artistic co-director/-producer, alongside Roxanne Maillet and Camille Videcoq, of the print journal Phylactère, which explores relationships between performance art and its documentation.

During her six-month residency at Noisy-le-Sec, Auriane Prud’homme realized a participatory project titled Subterranean Land in association with the organizations Entraide à Tous, Petits et Grands, la Petite Ruche – antenne solidaire du CCAS and La Courte-Échelle. Believing that science fiction holds emancipatory and transformational power, Preud’homme undertook a work of fiction based on conversations she held with several groups of women. Starting from a scenario that imagined a future intentional community of female friends gathered in an underground cave, together the women considered the following question: how will they live and age in 2100? During these workshops, participants projected onto an alternate reality their rapport with friendship, ecology, mutual aid, self-sufficiency and the power of the collective.

Using writing and papier mâché workshops as well as exchanges with the groups and their various creations, Auriane Preud’homme imagined both the script and set for a performance entitled Les papelardes. To cap her residency, she and several of the workshops’ participants will perform the piece.

End-of-residency with the performance Les papelardes, presented from 4 to 12 April 2025.