Caroline Rivalan was born in 1988 in Nice. A graduate of La Esmeralda in Mexico City and of the Villa Arson in Nice (2011), she works with the montage of…
Caroline Rivalan was born in 1988 in Nice. A graduate of La Esmeralda in Mexico City and of the Villa Arson in Nice (2011), she works with the montage of archival images, dioramas and luminous installations, around feminine myths and the tension between nature and artifice. She lives and works between Paris and Nice. Caroline Rivalan first studied stage costume in Paris. She then settled in Nice, where she obtained her DNSEP at the Villa Arson, after also attending the Escuela de Las Artes in Mexico City. At first glance her works may raise a smile, but the comedy played out does not fail to scratch certain aspects of our society. The “Objets quasi Vivants Non Identifiés” turn, crawl, jump, parodying future lives that have survived and evolved from the remains of an affluent civilisation, towards a frame of reference where time no longer holds sway. This young artist presents a series of installations whose forms or raw materials are borrowed from the bourgeois domestic universe rather than the industrial one.
