Ambush #10: Pauline Fondevila

Emerging from the Pauline Fondevila’s research process into the residual, the marginal or furtive as generative places of knowledge, the Ambush #10 launches a process of fabulation, collective construction and programming of events and nocturnal learning. Taking Bosc's environment as its setting, The school of the night proposes the physical and mental construction of a counter-school fuelled by the references, fantasies and ghosts of the participants, who become its builders, programmers, students and architects in the period of a week.

The workshop addresses dichotomies between the latent and the explicit, the ephemeral and the indelible, sleep and social activity cycles, leading to a pedagogical infrastructure that will also be an imaginary and tangible refuge, where the group participants will become programme creators, directors and teachers. Explorations of lunar, alien, paranormal and interspecies imaginaries unleash a process of spatial fabrication through drawing, painting, lighting and ephemeral construction.

Pauline Fondevila (1972, Le Havre) is a French visual artist, writer, curator, educator and musician based in Argentina. She studied letters and plastic arts in Rouen, Paris, Le Havre and Lyon, and was an artist in residence at Hangar (2004-2006, Barcelona) and at Casa Vecina (2012, Mexico City). Her work develops between various geographical, linguistic and artistic territories, and always involves drawing and words, also bringing into resonance multiple references that include plastic arts, music, literature, comics, revolutionary movements and alternative culture. Fondevila is a member of the band Perro Fantasma (Perro Fantasma, 2017 and Corazón y Alma, 2020) and has published two short novels with Iván Rosado publishing house, Una casa y un drum (2015) and Cinco Días en Colón (2018). Since 2020, she curates Explorar el Azar, an exhibition programme at Bon Scott Bar (Rosario). Her work has been exhibited at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), MUSAC (León), Momentum X (Nordic Countries Biennial, Norway), Casal Solleric (Palma de Mallorca). In 2024, Fondevila prepares Dibujar en un mundo malo in collaboration with Samuel Labadie at etHALL (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat). Her project La Escuela de la Noche was recently exhibited as an solo exhibition (2023, Diego Obligado Gallery).

Activity carried out with the collaboration of the Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte

Image: Pauline Fondevila, Sin título (P. y sus libros), CCPE Rosario, 2022. Photo: Giulia Antonelli