{"title":"ALISON BIGNON","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1771\/5997\/files\/20261016174504_265_39.png?v=1792144733\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBIO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eGraduated with top honors from Beaux Arts de Versailles, France, in engraving, drawing, sculpture and video. She had exhibited my works nationally and internationally ( Los Angeles, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mauritius, London, Paris) she displays the real life stories of my sitters through my created abstract portraits. By drawing upon exchanges with ordinary people, it is in her apartment in Paris where she listens to and transcribes their stories; carefully archiving them in what she terms an « emotional data bank ». Using a range of media, including videoed performance monologues, paintings, drawings and engravings. She extracts the elusive from their stories, and it is there she believes her art operates, for these stories to become part of the bigger one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eARTIST STATEMENT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eFor artist ALISON BIGNON , \"Art is first and foremost an encounter.\" Her work draws on exchanges with ordinary people, and it is in her apartment in Clichy, Paris that the artist listens to and transcribes people's life stories, creating them into art. These stories are carefully stored in what the artist terms an \"emotional data bank.\" According to Alison, to capture the inner movements of the soul, one must be a sensitive and empathetic listener and have the subtle versatility of an artist in order to transcribe.\u003cbr\u003eCombining her background and experience as a classically trained actor, director,\u003cbr\u003eand visual artist, Alison transcribes and creates the stories of her sitters using a range of media including videoed performance monologues, paintings, drawings and engravings. She describes this process as being similar to the work of an anthropologist that archives their research. Emotions form the central subject of Alison’s work, leaving one with an intricately detailed and complex composition that combines disparate elements to form a coherent and harmonic whole. Her paintings seep delicate strokes of colour – a spectrum of emotions, such as a painful wound that is difficult to heal and may scar over time. These markings of time – between past and present - are sewn together by the artist’s signature use of red thread, which acts as a subtle link between these intersections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eARTIST CV\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEducation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBeaux Arts de Versailles ( engraving, drawing, sculpture, video ), graduated\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ewith top honors ( With a special commendation from the jury )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eÉcole nationale de Chaillot ( actoring, directing )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSolo show\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eA road, Zeuxis Art room, London, curated by Amélie Du Chalard ( 2 june - 24\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ejuly 2016 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eMurmure d’une feuille, Mairie du 1er, Paris, curated by Thomas Brissault ( 17-27 dec 2015 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eFragments II, Alliance Française, Los Angeles, curated by Virginie d’Haudrechy ( 17 sept - 17 nov 2015 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eFragments, De Ré Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Steph Sebbag ( 16 dec 2014- 21 jan 2015 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGroup show\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAffordable Art Fair Singapore ( 16 - 18 nov 2018 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eRising sun setting, Singapore, Miaja gallery ( 7nov - 7 dec 2018)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAffordable Art Fair HONG KONG, with Miaja Gallery ( 18 - 22 may 2018 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e#SHE, virtual gallery across all major billboards . Curated by Avenir Art, Vanessa Power, London ( 10 nov - 27 dec 2017 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBeyond borders, Blain Southern gallery, London, curated by NEXTgen ( 16 - 21 may 2016 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eSALO, galerie 24 Beaubourg, Paris, curated by Laurent Quenehen ( 6 - 10 ap 2016 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eParticule de fin, galerie de la Voûte, Paris, duo show with Camille Moravia ( 17 - 29 mar 2016 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eFragments of, Castle Gibson, London, curated by MTArt ( 14 - 21 oct 2015 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eSpace, contexts, habitats, Palazzo Biscari, Sicily, curated by Pietro Scammacca\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e( 30 june - 3 july 2015 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBlue Nudes, De Ré Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Linda Dzhema ( 28 may - 27 june 2015 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eNothing perishes, Soho Revue Gallery, London, curated by Will Pelham ( 14 april - 16 may 2015 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eKorea namboo international contemporary fine art festival, South korea ( nov 2014 )\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e ARTWORKS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"black-sheep","title":"black sheep","description":"\u003cp\u003eblack sheep\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlison Bignon\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Y ART PROJECT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67725149175907,"sku":null,"price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1771\/5997\/files\/OutOfTheFlock.jpg?v=1792144495"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1771\/5997\/collections\/20261016174504_265_39.png?v=1792145007","url":"https:\/\/whyartprojects.com\/collections\/alison-bignon-1.oembed","provider":"Y ART PROJECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}