Salomé Chatriot, Fragile Ecosystem, 2024

Since 2019, Salomé Chatriot has been breathing life into Fragile Ecosystem, a series of procedural performances staged in different contexts with which she interacts via a medical device that captures her breathing in real time: a spirometer.

Both indoors and outdoors, under a waterfall in Basel or in the snow in Gstaad, the artist's breathing, combined with that of the machines, resonates with the breath of the audience and the synthetic or natural environment around them.

The installation and costumes vary from performance to performance, sometimes generating interactive sound, sometimes only light in the sculptures, but there is always this tenuous relationship between the living and the non-living, merging into a fragile ecosystem.

Salomé Chatriot (*1995, FR) is based in Paris.

Since 2019, Salomé Chatriot has been expanding her horizons through Fragile Ecosystem. The artist's breath gives rise to biodata that inform the matrix of the other media she uses: painting, sculpture, installations, and videos.

In 2021, she was selected for the Biennale College Arte workshop by Cécilia Alemani for the 59th Venice Art Biennale. She made her first film, Our Symbiosis Infected her Fertile Systems, commissioned by Boris Magnini, produced by Unfinished Camp, and proposed by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and András Szantó. The film will be shown at the Shed Museum in New York and at the HEK in Basel.

Salomé Chatriot has performed at Lafayette Anticipations and the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, in Gstaad with the Luma Foundation, and at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid. A selection of her films, videos, paintings, and sculptures is currently on display at the Marta Herford museum in Germany as part of an exhibition exploring the cross-relationships between art and technology: Between Pixel and Pigment. Hybrid Painting in Postdigital Times.