Guillaume Bruère's Hip Hop Heraldik at Institut Français de Berlin

Guillaume Bruère's exhibition 'Hip Hop Heraldik' at the Institut Français de Berlin (October 30, 2013 – January 12, 2014) merges drawing and dance. From February to May 2013, the artist attended rehearsals of Sasha Waltz's company twice weekly, observing dancers. The show presents drawings from this anthropological investigation, capturing the silent dialogue between observer and observed. At the vernissage, Bruère performed a dance/drawing with dancer Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, blurring boundaries between painting and performance. The exhibition, designed by Fabrice Gabriel, intertwines human and aesthetic encounters. Bruère's practice explores heraldry as a medieval tradition of identity through lineage, using the blazon as a unifying motif for fragmented bodies. His drawings often depict the whole through a part, such as an eye connected to a foot. The artist's recent engagement with Sasha Waltz's choreography, known for its fragmented and reunited bodies, amplifies these themes. Both Bruère and Waltz resist final answers to the ancient question of the fragmented body, instead setting identity in motion through art.