Over the last ten years Séverine Hubard (born in Lille in 1977) has found a place for her approach in the heart of the urban setting. Falling within the province of photography, video and performance, her work mainly provokes a reflection on volume and space, at the crossroads between sculpture and architecture. This Fall, Séverine Hubard is presenting a series of work in three of Strasbourg's museums including the monumental Village, presented at MAMCS beginning October 31st when she will welcome the public for a full day of performances, films and other diverse "Discours sur les passions de l'amour" (Discourse on the passions of love).

Séverine Hubard's creations have something purposefully makeshift about them, while in fact they are skillfully worked pieces. Scraps of plywood from a hardware store (Donc et or mais ni ou, at the Lieu Unique in Nantes, 2002), broken windows (Paysage défenestré, a composition of 90 broken windows created for Plate Forme in Dunkerque, 2003) or again the doors of an abandoned building pending destruction (Vue du Ciel, Le Quartier, Quimper, 2008), the material she chooses is not random: it refers back to the city and the materiality of its buildings, the preferred stomping ground of this "artist without a workshop".Séverine Hubard's work, however, never limits itself to one single concrete approach since she is able to give the most banal elements new dimension: above and beyond their sometimes brute aspect, her pieces, a combination of poetry and humor, also subtly touch upon the notion of memory (of a place, a building, its inhabitants). Some of her projects incorporate public participation into their dynamic and creation.

The artist will be showing three pieces in Strasbourg's museums; a video called Réévolution at the Zoological Museum, Le Crâne de Pierre at the Archeological Museum... and the grandiose Village at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. A work specially created for MAMCS, Village is a monumental assemblage of 18 "sheds" stacked together and measuring over ten meters in height. Installed in the space behind the museum's nave, the work can be seen from both inside and outside the museum.

An event organized in partnership with les Journées de l'Architecture