19BIS. Le jardin à frôler

Alexandre Lévy, a composer, studied at the CNSM in Paris where he won four first prizes. He worked there with Édith Lejet and Michèle Reverdy. He studied composition and electroacoustic music with Michel Zbar at the Boulogne conservatory. He has composed mixed works, vocal, instrumental and stage scores including several operas. His works are performed at such musical events as the Multiphonies concert of the Musical Research Group (GRM), Biennale Musiques en scène de GRAME, Rencontres Internationales de musique contemporaine de Cergy, Festival de Musique Contemporaine d’Enghien, Académie Ravel de Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Concours International de Mélodie de Toulouse. He won the grant from the Beaumarchais Foundation for his chamber opera “L” and has received several commissions from the French State. He writes incidental music and sound installations together with visual artists and theatre companies for cross-cutting projects.

A visual artist, Sophie Lecomte graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (Henri Cueco studio) and the Faculté d’Arts plastiques (Paris I). Through her work she seeks to compose poetics of the passing time and weaves a polymorphous world from sculpture, installations, videos, drawings and watercolours. With gentleness and cruelty, she crafts poetics of hybridisation – aimed at reaching out to a forgotten, diluted memory. Little by little she writes a personal natural history where the kingdoms intermingle and where forms metamorphose and call into question the perpetual movement of existence – the invisible effort of time and of disappearance. For six years, Sophie Lecomte has been working in partnership with Alexandre Levy on creating videos and sound installations. She has exhibited at such museums as the Museu do traje (Salvador de Bahia, Brazil), Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art (Macedonia) and Musée de Fontenay le Comte … Her work has been acquired by the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris) and Musée Barrois (Bar le Duc).