Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza. "Liminary fragments"

Jeu de Paume is hosting a discussion with artist Estefania Penafiel Loaiza and Marc Lenot, author of Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza. Fragments luminaries, and Raphael Cuir, president of AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art).

Lenot won the AICA France prize for art criticism in 2014 for his book on Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza. This was followed by an exhibition of her work, “Fragments luminaires,” at the Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France in spring 2015.
Whatever the medium or mode of expression chosen, Loaiza’s art is notable for its great sense of coherence, as if each work was a fragment of a whole of which we can see only the beginnings, the liminary part. With an unfailing and remarkable economy of means, she explores themes such as visibility and absence, history and memory, displacement and territory.

Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza was born in Quito (Ecuador) in 1978. She studied art at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito, then came to Paris in 2002 to study at ENSBA, ending with two post-diploma degrees at ENSBA-Paris and ENSBA-Lyon. In addition to numerous group shows in France and Ecuador since 2001, she has had recent solo exhibitions at CPIF (“fragments luminaires,” Pontault-Combault, 2015), Crédac (“l’espace épisodique,” Ivry-sur-Seine, 2014) and La Villa du Parc (“la dix-huitième place,” Annemasse, 2013).
She has also been involved in artist’s residencies, one with Triangle France (Marseille) in the Tassili Desert in Algeria, and others at La Galerie in Noisy-le-Sec, The Hangar in Beirut and the Centre Photographique d’Île-de- France in Pontault-Combault. In 2014 and 2015 she received two public commissions, one for the “Barbara” school in Stains (récoltes) and the other in Chazeleuze with DRAC Franche-Comté (ouvreuses).
Her works have been acquired, among others, by the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, the FRACs of Franche-Comté and Basse- Normandie, and the Collection Départementale d’Art Contemporain de Seine-Saint-Denis. She has also given several performances, notably at Le BAL (Paris), Wiels (Brussels) and the Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard (Paris).
She lives and works in Paris.

Marc Lenot is a critic. He writes the Lunettes Rouges contemporary art blog published by Le Monde.

Bookshop event, Tuesday 1 March, in the Jeu de Paume educational space at 7 pm. Admission free (first come first served).