Marine

Bikard

A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020, nominated for the Prix Contemporain du Dessin the same year and winner of the Diamond Drawing Prize in 2017, Marine Bikard teaches live model drawing at the Nouvelles Académie des Amateurs. 

At the intersection of performance and drawing, her work shifts the focus on drawing, considering it through the sensitive experience it provides. She imagines a kind of 'score' for drawing, often inspired by dance. In these, she tries to shake up the invisible hierarchies of drawing, by allowing a priori discreet agents (the interplay of relationships, the unconscious life of the body, the effect of time, etc.) to emerge in the experience and in the lines. So drawing, as an activity of movement, becomes a way of increasing our porosity to the world and going out to meet it. 

Photo credits: Jocelyn Cottencin.