Bérénice Szajner
Born in 1967, lives and works in Avignon
Bérénice Szajner’s commitment to Nature and the Animal world is an intrinsic part of her DNA, it has always been the driving force of her artistic practice and the source of her inspiration.
The essential ambition of Szajner’s work is to reconsider and reweave the denatured and fragmented link of the Nature-Man-Animal relationship in which human beings have progressively put themselves at the centre and in a dominant position vis-à-vis his environment and the species that inhabit it. Szajner believe that humans have cut themselves off from their roots, by denying the reality of all the living-sensible and by considering the other species as resources and not as entities in interrelations evolving for the survival of the whole; the same entity, Life, composed of different species.
Throughout her art, she tries to highlight animal beauty, their vital force, their sensitivity, as well as their fragility, which we are abusing to the point of exhaustion and eradication, at the time of the sixth mass extinction.
She strives for an art that would help imagine a world of tomorrow where the new generations want to be more authentic, more empathic and more ethical.