Tania Mouraud

Tania Mouraud
Born1942 (1942)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
EducationAutodidact
Known forVideo, photography, installation and sound performances
Awardschevalier de la Légion d'honneur, chevalier de l'ordre national du Mérite, officier des Arts et des Lettres, officier de l'ordre national du Mérite
Websitetaniamouraud.com

Tania Mouraud (born Paris 1942) is a contemporary French video artist and photographer.[1]

Tania Mouraud began her artistic career at a young age as a painter. Later on, she shifted towards photography, continuously growing her portfolio. In the late 1990s, she created her first videos. Her work heavily features themes of anguish and responsibility, drawing from her personal mourning.[2]

Mouraud's interest in videography eventually led to her to express her work through audial performances. She founded Unité de Production in 2002 for her sound performances, but embarked on live solo performances only after a few concerts with the group. She produced various video installations, including Ad Infinitum (2008),[3] Ad Nauseam (2014),[4] and a collaboration with the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM).

In 2015, the exhibition: "Tania Mouraud. A Retrospective." was shown at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.[5] Mouraud's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.[6]

  1. ^ "Tania Mouraud". AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  2. ^ Mouraud, Tania (2010). "At the Core". École Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Montpellier Agglomération: 64. ISBN 978-2-916-336-11-4.
  3. ^ Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes et Fage éditions (2009). Ad Infinitum Tania Mouraud. Nantes. ISBN 978-2-84975-169-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Mouraud, Tania (2014). "Ad Nauseam". Mac/Val. Paris: 255. ISBN 978-2-916324-81-4.
  5. ^ "Expositions: Tania Mouraud. Une rétrospective". Centre Pompidou-Metz: https://web.archive.org/web/20150508182819/http://www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/tania-mouraud-une-r-trospective.
  6. ^ Women in abstraction. London : New York, New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; Thames & Hudson Inc. 2021. p. 170. ISBN 978-0500094372.