Jennifer Caubet
Jennifer Caubet is an Astérides Resident in 2009.
Jennifer Caubet benefited from a four-month residency in a studio at iaab in Basel, as part of a partnership with Astérides.
Through acts of détournement, Jennifer Caubet’s work questions the materialization of the utilitarian desire for form or idea. Her research draws from artistic utopias and ideological symptoms. She is primarily interested in how built structures impact territory, and in the relationship between form and notions of power, defense, and control.
Polymorphic in nature, her work is rooted in sculpture and installation, though video, animation, and computer-assisted drawing also inform her practice. Across all these mediums, she maintains a distinctive relationship to space. Her work reflects a rationalization of both space and form. Yet, her spatial interventions also demonstrate the transformative potential of artistic production—the capacity to generate new situations. Her sculptures evoke nomadism, modularity, and the idea that they may serve as tools or means for claiming space.
Jennifer Caubet’s work in on display during the exhibition Interprétation à l’oeuvre, 2016.
