The eye is green, the complexion of pink, the red streak like the heroine of Mary Webb's La Renarde , this romantic Englishwoman who, at the beginning of the 20th century, drew strength and rebellion from nature. Artist of theatrical drapery and reinvented rite, Ulla von Brandenburg has this intuitive and feminine connection with the terroir, the forest, the cycle of life of which man is only a part. Even the most mineral city does not resist him. Here she is as a magician of places at the Palais de Tokyo where this regular at art biennials, from Lyon to Sydney, softens the visit which she transforms into a bath of colors and an immersive experience. " The middle is blue, " she says. She transforms the disproportionate and cold space into a virtual palace of tales and stories by her play of hangings which follow one another, enclose or half-open. Like the tapestries that the feudal courts transported from castle to castle in their rickety carts.
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This thinking head was born in 1974 in Karlsruhe, on the Franco-German border,
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