Silhouettes

Saint-Eustache church, Paris

2012

Fanny Allié

With Silhouettes, a project encompassing neon sculptures, terracotta sculptures, video and performance, Fanny Allié establishes a dialogue between her installations and a site brimming with spirituality, St. Eustache Church.

Traces and memory are central to Fanny Allié’s artistic concerns. Her work explores the notion of immateriality of the body by emphasizing its shapes and silhouette. Echoing the aura of the location, she brings to the fore the mystery of the body and of the spirit, installing within the church a discreet light which invites one to contemplate and remain silent. In this way, Silhouettes took on another dimension during the Advent period.

Fanny Allié

Fanny Allié obtained her Master’s degree from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, in Arles, France in 2005. The artist’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance, Princeton University, Equity Gallery, Hyatt Centric (Philadelphia), DOT Art, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC Parks, Fresh Window, and Saint-Eustache church (Paris, France). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at Mana Contemporary, Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts, NYU/Gallatin Gallery, Dorsky Gallery, Freight+Volume, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Pratt Institute, UConn University, and The Bronx Museum, among others. 

Fanny Allié is the recipient of various fellowships and residencies, including AIM (Bronx Museum), BRIC Lab Fellowship, Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, A.I.R. Fellowship Program, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Fellowship, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, Yaddo Residency, Dieudonné Workspace Residency, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship (Craft/ Sculpture), MacDowell Fellowship and The Puffin Foundation.