During her residency in sound creation at the Camille Claudel Museum, the young French artist Anne-Line Drocourt drew her inspiration and raw material from the testimonies of visitors observing the museum’s works, as well as from everyday experiences and encounters at the Domaine du Tournefou.
Her residency project therefore allowed her to produce a sound installation that uses voices and sounds from the stories and memories evoked by the sculptures in visitors.
For the past six years, the Camille Claudel Museum, in partnership with the city of Nogent-sur-Seine and the Tournefou Association, has invited an artist each year to participate in a two-month research and creation residency. The goal of this residency is to conceive an original artwork that establishes a dialogue between contemporary creation and the art history of the 19th and 20th centuries, drawing inspiration from the two emblematic locations of the residency: Tournefou and the Camille Claudel Museum, as well as the surrounding area. The selected artist is invited to forge connections between past and present artists while exploring the museum’s collections through their own artistic lens. Anne-Line Drocourt received support from Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation for this sound residency.
Anne-Line Drocourt (Fr)
Composer and sound creator, Anne-Line Drocourt explores sound through compositions, documentary pieces, installations, and performances for radio, theater, museums, and live performances. With a background in Modern Literature (Paris VII Diderot), a master’s degree in documentary writing and filmmaking (CREADOC, Angoulême), and a diploma in Sound Arts (ENSA Bourges), she seeks to create a poetic and rhythmic language from real-world recordings.
By writing and recording voices, noises, elements of landscapes, or machines, without distinction between these different sound materials, she weaves sound textures, manipulates sound effects, and assembles these sources into compositions that blend documentary narrative, fictional essays, and musicality. The sound material is viewed as a means of poetic writing, suggesting or narrating through silences, rhythmic breaks, and vocal textures, leaving room for each listener to create their own fiction and evoke their own memories.
Her work focuses on notions related to anecdotal memory and traces. Notably, she created *Quelques Lignes pour vous donner de mes nouvelles* (France Culture, 2018), a fruitless investigation around a found letter; *Odette et les mots des autres*, an audiovisual installation revolving around postcards and vacations (since 2020, Ateliers Médicis, le Bel Ordinaire, l’Été Culturel); and more recently *Tendres Spectres* (2022, ENSA Bourges), a sound installation summoning the anecdotal memories of deceased loved ones from a dozen strangers met through classified ads. Her first solo exhibition *Des Vies courantes* (Grand Chambord, Domaine national de Chambord), blending sound and visual installation, explored the daily lives of individuals in a contrasting territory, based on a “daily life” questionnaire sent to strangers from the phone book.
Laureat of the Prix Libération Apaj 2016 (Petit Inventaire), Mixage Fou 2016, and 60 Secondes Radio 2020 (La Dernière personne sur Terre), her work has been broadcast or performed in various contexts and festivals: France Culture, le Lieu Unique in Nantes, Longueurs d’Ondes in Brest, les Yeux Ouverts in Paris, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes…
She also shares her practice through workshops with audiences ranging from 6 to 94 years old, regularly collaborates with Jet FM radio, and is part of the collective La Pause Goûter, creators of sound performances for young audiences. She also performs solo and live, using loops constructed from voice fragments and everyday objects: toys, rubber bands, kitchenware, etc.
She has lived in Nantes since 2022, where she works in her studio at Les Ateliers de la Ville en Bois.
Informations
- 13.10 > 03.11.202
- Musée Camille Claudel
- 10 Rue Gustave Flaubert 10400 Nogent-sur-Seine (Aube en Champagne)
- museecamilleclaudel.fr – association-tournefou.com
Production
- Camille Claudel Museum and the city of Nogent-sur-Seine with the Tournefou association
- With the support of Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation
