Johanna Fournier

 

Johanna Fournier is a sculptor who lives and works in Paris, France. Johanna Fournier specializes in public installations that extend the discourse between art, art object and observer. With a keen interest in the multiple, the artist fabricates colorful, engaging sculptures that connect with all elements of the immediate environment, emphasizing the significance of local sites.

Johanna Fournier utilizes France as her canvas and collaborates with different municipalities to exhibit her work on a public scale. In 2007, the artist created Under Lock, a series of colorful wood blocks that were connected to an anti-theft cable that wove throughout the form while physically secured to nearby architecture details. Fournier modified her idea into a series of interlocking cubes titled Spin off blokus that appeared in 2009 on park benches across the city of Nice as part of the INDISCIPLINES contemporary art festival. In 2010, Johanna Fournier exhibited Le Lampadaire, la sculpture et l’espace public in Epinay-sous-Sénart, a suburb of Paris.

In March 2012 the artist created light projections for a fashion show and a video remake freely based on the work of Sonia Delaunay. Through the use of a strong color palette, Johanna Fournier’s grand, geometric color patterns saturated the white dresses of each model, rendering a performative experience of color and form. This work is part of Chère Sonia. D, an exhibition where the artist revisits a story borrows forms of modernity, exploring the fields of fashion and architecture in a transversal approach to art. Since 2004 her work has appeared throughout France.