Fanny Lavergne

Through her sculptures, installations, drawings and videos, Fanny Lavergne highlights the fragility of our existence, our ineluctable end and our powerlessness in the face of erosion.

It is in vain that we try to hold on.​

​Time inevitably erases, tarnishes and destroys. We can't control everything: nature takes its course, and objects are bound to be destroyed. 
Fanny diverts them from their functions.
Under the artist's hand, they become useless, even absurd.
 
In this way, she reveals their inherent weakness and underlines it by using a fragile, breakable or perishable medium.
 
Natural elements are omnipresent in Fanny Lavergne's creations. Plants, flowers and roots mingle with inanimate objects, creating an unsettling harmony between humans and their environment. We are only a part of the ecosystem in which we live.

Fanny Lavergne's works evolve, the material changes, natural or human constraints are exerted on the frozen artefact as it continues its evolution, its journey towards its end. 

Through her sensitive work, our vulnerability becomes poetry, our vanity becomes beauty. And this delicacy is a hymn to the ephemeral beauty of life.
 

Fanny Lavergne was born in 1989. After studying scenography at the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers d'Art in Arras, she obtained her Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique from the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Plastiques de la Ville de Monaco in 2015.

Fanny has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad. 
 
In 2019, she exhibited at Galerie G in La Garde, "Incidents".
Fanny has also unveiled her work in several group exhibitions, including "Jeune céramique européenne" in St Quentin-la-Poterie in 2019, "Hybrid'Art" at Centre d'Art Contemporain Fernand Léger in Port-de-Bouc in 2018, "Céramiques, Dialogue entre tradition et contemporain" at Musée de Salagon, Mane - 2018; "Utopie/Distopie", Arles en Prémices, Église des Frères Prêcheurs, Arles - 2016 and among others, "One Thousand Nights and One Night : Sleepless Nights of Sheherazade" at the Watermill Center, New York in 2014.
 
Fanny has received numerous awards.
In 2019, she won the Prix Passerelle, Elstir Passerelle pour l'art, 32ème Rendez-vous des jeunes plasticiens; in 2018, the 8th Prix de la jeune création, Atelier Blanc, Moulins des Arts, Saint-Rémy (jury prize and audience prize) and in 2015, Artagõn.I, Paris, (jury prize and team prize).
 
She lives & works in Rudelle, Lot, Occitanie, France.