The Glowing Homeless

Saint-Eustache church, Paris

2024 - 2025

Fanny Allié

Invited by Rubis Mécénat, and part of the 40th anniversary of the soup kitchen La Soupe Saint-Eustache, artist Fanny Allié, known for her interventions in public spaces, is exhibiting the neon sculpture The Glowing Homeless. Inspired by the silhouette of an homeless person asleep on a public bench, the sculpture was initially created in 2011 for a park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York. 

To accompany this neon silhouette, Fanny Allié created the sound installation Chants de La Pointe, for which she records the whispered, hummed, sung and whistled songs of the beneficiaries of the association La Pointe Saint-Eustache during collaborative workshops in December 2024. These sung testimonies reveal fragments of the life experience of the homeless men and women who agreed to take part in her project. This is the artist’s second project presented by Rubis Mécénat at the Saint-Eustache church, after the installation Silhouettes in 2012. 

Fanny Allié

Fanny Allié obtained her Master’s degree from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, in Arles, France in 2005. The artist’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance, Princeton University, Equity Gallery, Hyatt Centric (Philadelphia), DOT Art, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC Parks, Fresh Window, and Saint-Eustache church (Paris, France). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at Mana Contemporary, Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts, NYU/Gallatin Gallery, Dorsky Gallery, Freight+Volume, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Pratt Institute, UConn University, and The Bronx Museum, among others. 

Fanny Allié is the recipient of various fellowships and residencies, including AIM (Bronx Museum), BRIC Lab Fellowship, Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, A.I.R. Fellowship Program, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Fellowship, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, Yaddo Residency, Dieudonné Workspace Residency, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship (Craft/ Sculpture), MacDowell Fellowship and The Puffin Foundation.

 

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