Lili Reynaud-Dewar

Born in 1975, she lives in Bordeaux.

An active figure in the art scene hailing from the Nantes School of Fine Arts in the mid-1990s, and an art critic as well as a plastic artist, Lili Reynaud-Dewar sets up hybrid arrangements, situated at the crossroads of installation and set, performance and sculpture, where she re-treats a host of sources coming from alternative cultures—“black, rasta, punk, queer, gay, feminist”. 

The performance devised by Lili Reynaud-Dewar is performed by Mary Know (performer) and Xavier Chabellard (drummer) with the Quaderna set of tables by Superstudio, loaned by the Fonds national d'art contemporain.

What is your artistic proposition?

In reality, is the sphinx an addition to the monument, or the monument an addition to the sphinx? is a significant question, which won't be answered by a performance of the same name for two characters and an historical work: a musician, a female pharaoh and the series of Misura tables, created by the radical group of architects called Superstudio in 1970. Together, they are the narrators of a symbolist tale about architecture, death and rebirth. With its many different performance-related facets: ritual, Power Point talk, burlesque show, video-projected demonstration of break-dancing, and by being especially interested in the depiction of Egypt in the contemporary popular imagination, In reality... is a spectacle of crypto-critical entertainment. A short, condensed form which, like a sphinx, proposes paths for solving several enigmas.