Les Voyageurs

Saint-Priest, France

2015 - 2023

Fanny Allié

Les Voyageurs is a 70 meter long installation by the artist Fanny Allié, completed for the wall along the street rue des Pétroles in Saint-Priest, France. This project, supported by the city, is a Rubis Mécénat commission for the Société du Dépôt de Saint-Priest (SDSP).

Fanny Allié created a series of 42 human figures made out of nylon string, and representing gestures, poses and movements of the people passing by and drivers of the 4,000 vehicles that circulate daily on the main road of Grand Lyon’s industrial zone. The wall is animated by colorful silhouettes full of movement that interlink and multiply into a series of dynamic forms which create a rhythm on the surface of the bare wall while constituting a poetic gesture in the midst of an urban and industrial environment.

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.