Paola Siri Renard’s practice investigates Western architecture, natural processes and collective imaginary. Through appropriation of prevailing architectural archives and defense narratives ; her transitional-state sculptures explore metamorphosis, bodies disintegrating and morphing into fictional constellations. She designs her installations as devices of displacement between centuries, between worlds and their myths. Renard’s hand-sculpted works question the treatment of legacy, its dissemination and the exclusionary underpinnings of specific identities – echoing the history of her Martinican and Swedish heritage.
For her collaboration with nouveaux deuxdeux in Munich as part of Various Others, Renard will present recent and new works from her ongoing research into equestrian monuments and architectural ornament.