Aurélie Pertusot (*1983 in Nancy) lives and works in Nancy and Berlin. A graduate of the Nancy and Bourges Art Academies, she is co-founder of several performance collectives, including Les Trotteuses and Ana Colute. From 2016 to 2018 she was a member of the Arthésis research group for art and sound design at ENSA Bourges. She is currently the winner of the cross-residency program of the Laźnia Contemporary Art Center in Gdansk (Poland) and the city of Strasbourg. Her work was recently nominated for the Neukölln Art Prize and the André Evard Prize. Aurélie’s work has been exhibited across Europe.

Works by Aurélie Pertusot change our common perception of space and time by twisting points of reference and thus drawing attention to an invisible underlying reality. Aurélie explores the transitions between presence and absence and at the same time plays with instability and fragility. Her project dealt with the deepening of the concept of repetition and cycles of different experiments in the field of improvisation. One of these experiments was to operate a rudimentary water machine. The controlled flow of water droplets lets us experience a slower perception of time and awakens a buried sound memory.