Alexiane Trapp (b. 1997 in Paris, France) is a visual artist who works with text. Graduated with a Master’s Degree from the Beaux-arts in Bordeaux and with another Master’s Degree of Création Littéraire in Le Havre.
Alexiane’s oral and written narratives are made up of interwoven stories based on personal memories, myths, literary figures and characters from popular culture. Which questions memory and transmission, about women sexualization or lies given to children for example, to convey her contemporary point of view.
Since 2021, the artist has been staging her performances that combine texts and ceramics or embroidery at various art spaces across France including the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Ceramics Museum (Rouen), the Générateur (Gentilly), the LaM (Villeuneuve-d’Ascq), the Fine Arts Museum (Rouen), the Niemeyer library (Le Havre), the BBB (Toulouse).
La Lega
HD colour video, 4.30 min, 2024, Alexiane Trapp
The 7 women sing a cappella La lega, an Italian revolting song of the end of the 19th century sung by the mondines. The rice-pickers of the Po plain formed leagues alongside the workers and sang of their revolt against the bosses, demanding freedom.
“When I met them, some knew it, others had learned it. Those who knew it told me that nowadays it’s almost impossible to sing, the words are lost.
Each in their own corner of the valley, their voices came together to form a choir. Together they keep alive the symbol of the feminist revolts of the women farm workers.”
