Jeanne Berbinau Aubry’s works interrogate natural and mechanical phenomena. In her sculpture and installation work, Jeanne diverts objects by transposing them from their initial state towards, in many cases, paradoxal alternatives.

The fictionalization processes of her works involve long periods of macerating an idea, knowledge and technique which reveal a multi-dimensional apprehension of reality. In one of her video works we come across the projection of a small, experimental forest of bioluminescent plants which could eventually and inevitably function as public lighting.

Her cierges which are composed of paraffin wax and gun powder are aborted explosions contained within an object which has ultimately been desacralized. If light occupies a central position in Jeanne Berbinau Aubry’s works, it is the neon light which regularly plays the principal role. Whether the neon be artificially maintained in activity, re-employed in the confection of an unusable chandelier or petrified in a plexiglass aquarium in the middle of a cristallization, the neon is returned to it’s initial status of imprisoned gas.

When Jeanne Berbinau Aubry releases essences into the  atmosphere, they are those which she has left to macerate in alcohol so as to obtain a liqueur, the quintessence of a place which has been «bottled up» and in which the effluvium is discreetly diffused.