About

Through drawing, performance, music, installation, and film, Pauline Curnier Jardin (b. 1980, Marseille, France) crafts fictional adventures full of chance occurrences and wonders, that nonetheless carry with them the potential for mishap or misfortune. Through lighting, color, texture, costume, soundtrack, and props, she creates transgressive, funny, and highly stylized visual settings that owe more to theater than to conventional narrative cinema. Curnier Jardin's stories reveal a fascination with monsters, decorative objects, and animals, although her work expresses a particular …