MATHILDE LAVENNE - Lille, France – multimedia
Multivalent 100W alumna Mathilde Lavenne, a graduate of France’s prestigious Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts, is an audiovisual and new media artist and director whose work combines an exquisite sensibility to narrative with a rich and palimpsestic visual vocabulary and an engagement with emerging technologies.

Lavenne's ongoing Corsicana Residency since last spring 2023 is supported proudly in partnership with Villa Albertine, for her commitment to work here through summer 2025. The Land I Live On, an immersive documentary, explores the local legacies of petroleum and cotton as seen through the prism of women’s narratives, many of them African American and connected to a history of enslavement and capitalism. Local figures Ruby Williams and the late spiritual medium Annie Buchanan, among others, will figure in a metaverse. Having gleaned unique archival material and oral narratives, Lavenne is currently working on the storyboarding, mood boards, and graphic library that will allow her to create a prototype for the immersive documentary. Layering animated 3-D material, particle animation, mapped video sequences, and volumetric video capture, the result will create bridges and sound the hidden narratives of the invisible. Back in Corsicana inside Anteroom, Lavenne screens her existing, award-winning film Solar Echoes, which centers on a thermo-nuclear power plant in Andalusia, Spain—a haunting, ethereal juxtaposition with visions of the recent solar eclipse. mathildelavenne.com