Cécile Hartmann
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After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and Art History in Strasbourg, Cécile Hartmann developed a practice where history and nature become mediums. Her work blends minimalist aesthetics, visual dramaturgy, and documentary research to form politically and symbolically charged images. Through photography, film, and objects, she explores the physicality of observed elements and reality-reconstruction strategies that engage the viewer as a sensitive, critical subject. She has undertaken residencies in Japan, Berlin, and Stockholm (Iaspis, Villa Medici hors les murs), and filmed in cities such as Dubai, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and New York. In 2012, her film Achronology in Dubai was shown at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Beirut Art Center, and the Akarenga Soko Museum in Yokohama. Texts by Pascal Beausse, Paul Ardenne, and Eileen Sommerman have addressed her work.