05.24.23
ARTISTIC RESIDENCY I LAËTITIA BADAUT HAUSSMANN

The Franklin Azzi Endowment Fund is thrilled to welcome the artist Laëtitia Badaut Haussman for a 6-month artistic residency in its architectural office.

The project is part of the «Artists’ residencies in companies» initiative supported by the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Île-de-France (DRAC), Paris Île-de-France Capitale Économique (PCE) and Beaux Arts & Cie in Greater Paris. Based on the shared conviction that bringing the arts closer to the contemporary economic world is a powerful lever for innovation and creation on the scale of an entire territory, the project supports 20 company/artist tandems from all disciplines.

Franklin Azzi and his team are very pleased to welcome Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, whose research explores the notion of para-architecture. Her work is situated at the intersection of several fields including domesticity, psychology and feminism. Her practice focuses on the concept of design and its history as a social and political expression. She works with sculpture, installation, image, text, video and sound, with the exhibition as her primary medium.

A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts, Paris-Cergy in 2006, Haussmann was awarded the AWARE Prize (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions) in 2017. She took part in the Pavilion residency programme at the Palais de Tokyo in 2011-2012, and at the Villa Kujoyama's in Kyoto, Japan, in 2016. In 2022, Badaut Haussmann was in residence at the Secession (Vienna, AU) for her research related to the tobacco industry through the historical, iconographical and mass manipulation lenses. She is currently working on the Pavillon des Amours aka Pav.Lov., a social sculpture developed to host discussions from specialists about love as a political tool, which first took place in Paris in June 2023, supported by “Mondes Nouveaux”. She is represented by Galerie Allen (Paris). 

Pictures:

1. Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Maquette (Safe), 2020. Exhibition view «Lucy Jordan» Galerie Allen, Paris, photo ©Aurélien Mole
2. Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Sans titre, 2019. Exhibition view "Le sentiment, la pensée, l’intuition" Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Château de Rochechouart, photo ©Aurélien Mole
3. Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Tobacco Files, 2022. Exhibition view "Tabak Trafik” School, Vienna, photo ©Yasmina Haddad