Roxane Revon

BIO

Roxane Revon is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. She grew up in France and studied philosophy (MA, La Sorbonne University) before moving to New York a decade ago where she started her artistic career and continued her education (Yale School of Drama). She has been working as an award winning stage director, scenographer and drama teacher in NYC while developing multimedia installations and visual arts more recently. She was an artist in residence at the LMCC Art Center on Governors Island in the Fall 2021 and exhibited her work in Hong Kong, Milan and New York. In 2022, she was part of “The Flag Project RC” at the Rockefeller center and received a LMCC Creative Engagement grant to develop her “Roon’s Roots” installation (UNFIX NY Festival, French Institute Gallery solo show). As a scenographer, she recently presented “Shades of Spring”, choreographed by Jessica Lang, that world premiered at the Joyce Theater. She is thrilled to currently be part of the “Art on Paper” art fair in NYC & “Exquisite corpse” presented by SHIM Eco & Jill Krutick Gallery at the Venice Biennale.

STATEMENT

Revon’s work interrogates our relations to “non human beings”, and especially plants. In her installations & drawings, inspired by her readings of anthropologists such as Natasha Myers and Philippe Descola, Revon stages new ways to see and seed a plant and people relationship in the here and now. Using her stage director skills and refusing to use the term "Nature" to refer to the non-human environment surrounding us, she plays with the transparency of reused transparent materials to form ever growing pieces in which human and plant are inevitably combined. She follows a methodical process that includes mapping the underground ecosystem of a specific geographic location, as well as germinating, photographing, and sketching a variety of plant roots. From these studies emerge vibrant lines and abstract patterns that spread throughout her work, forming a wander that gets the audience to move away from a fixed point of view to enter into another temporality.