20.10.2024

Marie Caroline Hominal & David Hominal

Art, Dance, Performance, Roma

As part of Romaeuropa Festival 2024
H18:00

Dates
20.10.2024
Location
Roma
Category
Art, Dance, Performance
Information

As part of Romaeuropa Festival 2024
H18:00

Istituto Svizzero supports the performance HOMINAL / HOMINAL by Swiss dancer and choreographer Marie-Caroline Hominal and her visual artist brother David Hominal, as part of the Romaeuropa Festival 2024.

Two authors united by the title of a show that seems to merge them by letting the very notion of author dissolve. These names become a kind of label but also a way to stop questioning collaboration, its dynamics, its possible hierarchies. Choreographer and dancer Marie Caroline Hominal meets her visual artist brother David Hominal seeking a new form of co-creation. “Thanks to Marie-Caroline Hominal’s uncanny ability to put herself in danger and David Hominal’s ability to densify the energy that runs through him, the two artists produce a four- handed self-portrait – a sparkle in their sibling relationship that joyfully escapes any category or expectation” wrote critic Samuel Gross.

Supported by Istituto Svizzero and Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.


 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Sunday 20.10.2024 H18:00
Mattatoio, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4
Roma

Tickets are available for purchase online at Vivaticket.

Biographies

Marie-Caroline Hominal lives and works in Geneva. She received her dance education at ZHDK TanzAkademie in Zurich and at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London. In 1998, she joined the National Youth Dance Company for one year. Thereafter, she worked among others with Irène Tassembedo, TanzTheater – Basel, Gise?le Vienne, Gilles Jobin, La Ribot and Marco Berrettini. Her personal research begins in 2002 around video work, then shifts more decisively towards choreography from 2008 with the solo Fly Girl. In this solo, the dancer oscillates between representations of sexuality and violence in a game of provocations that undermines and multiplies identities. From then on, the formats of her works are determined by circumstances or themes. The same universe unfolds, a baroque world in which identities are blurred, tragedy and comedy merge, sometimes dark, eccentric or melancholic. Today her artistic practice includes performance, choreography, drawing, video. In 2019 she was awarded the Swiss Dance Award for Outstanding Female Dancer by the Federal Office of Culture. Her works have been presented since 2008 in theaters, museums, art galleries as well as in more atypical places, in all Europe, Asia, North and South America.

David Hominal lives and works in Berlin. Working mainly in serial painting, he also explores sculpture, drawing, video, collage, print, performance and installation. Polymorphic, his work gives rise to correlations between images drawn from both personal and ordinary sources, as well as from disciplines such as dance, music and visual arts. His work has been shown in numerous individual exhibitions, at Consortium in Dijon, Jenisch Museum Vevey, Centre d’e?dition contemporaine and Centre d’art contemporain in Geneva ; as well as in group exhibitions at Magasin in Grenoble, Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris, MAMCO Geneva, Swiss Institute, Muse?e des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, Fri-Art in Fribourg, Kunsthalle Bern, Kunsthaus Zu?rich and CAC – Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius. David Hominal is represented by Kamel Mennour and Karma International galleries.