Frédérique Nalbandian
Born in 1967, lives and works in Italy
Frédérique Nalbandian graduated from the Ecole Pilote Internationale d'Arts et de Recherches, Villa Arson, Nice. During these years spent experimenting with forms in the making, she has refined her knowledge of materials and her interest in the vast and troubling question of the passage of time. Soap still occupies a prominent place in her work as a sculptor, but also plaster and glass. Depending on the occasion, these substances are loaded with water, air, carmine red pigment and charcoal powder, allowing themselves to be impregnated and even bruised. Chemical exchanges are thus clearly taking place in installations that follow the laws of uncultivated landscapes or dialogue with architectural spaces charged with meaning.
Finally, it must be said that Frédérique Nalbandian produces a number of drawings in which a weave of references to art history and imprecise anatomy emerges with varying degrees of clarity on the paper. A partition, one might say, between the desire to describe the spinning of the sky and the desire to put man back at the center of the system.