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Animal montagnard transnational adapté au milieu urbain, je suis inspirée par l'artisanat de ma grand-mère, les histoires dessinées en tous genres, le DIY. Mes micro-récits vidéographiques ont circulé au Québec, au Canada, aux États-Unis, aux Pays-Bas, en Belgique, en Équateur et en France. Adepte régulière de projets collaboratifs, je donne des ateliers de dessin et de micro-récit.

Transnational mountain animal adapted to an urban environment, I am inspired by my grand-mother's arts & crafts, all kinds of hand drawn stories, DIY techniques. My videostories have travelled in Québec, Canada, the US, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ecuador and France. Frequently involved in collaborative projects, I I facilitate drawing and micro narratives workshops.
Entre micro-récit vidéographique, installation, dessin et performance, je raconte des petites histoires qui questionnent l'Histoire, le sens des images et des mots, notre rapport à la diversité. Le contexte dans lequel je vis - et le passé sur lequel il pousse- est mon point de départ, mon champ d'action. Mes histoires s'inspirent de mes mythologies familiales autant que des décombres de l'actualité. Dans cet espace de narration aux frontières mutantes, je scrute les abîmes des discours quotidiens, je sonde les possibilités d'un vivre-ensemble plus inclusif. •
Through drawing, video and installation and sometimes performance, I tell stories from parts of my life, "official" history and the latest gossips of my neighbour. My homespun collage-style narratives embrace the world in which they are made, for the best and for the worst. I hope to make what outrage me heard again,  in a - if not utopian, at least burning - desire to get along better.

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Marie Dauverné‘s video work is characterized by a dense collage aesthetic that uses a mixture of archival imagery, folk music, and handmade drawings to pose seemingly naive questions on the more taboo aspects of family, relationships, sexuality, and race. With child-like logic, Dauverné unmasks the adult world as one mixed up, messed up place. A land where unbridled colonialism is both an historical condition and a pernicious constant experienced by Indigenous peoples. A world where racism is both casual and devastating, a place where sex is scary, painful and potentially deadly, where neither « Arabs « nor « homos » are allowed in the house. Yet the young voice continues to try to piece it all together : the alcoholic uncle, perhaps the one who served in Algeria, the grandfather who is fragile at the death of his wife, then too mean to hug and finally dead himself. This jumble of experiences careens along with Dauverné’s deft hand at the tiller, no shore in sight but a ride that is part wonder and part madness. A condition very much like childhood itself.

- Lisa Steele
http://www.vtape.org/event/marie-dauverne-les-contagions-barbares-and-les-crevasses-foisonnent-de-miniatures-heretiques
marie dauverné . 2013-2016