Rewatch Poésie Plateforme with Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke and Anna Solal

Parmi les programmes développés par la Fondation Pernod Ricard, celui imaginé par l’auteur de poésie et enseignant en art Jérôme Mauche propose une formule désormais bien rôdée : deux ou parfois trois invité·es se retrouvent pour parler de leurs pratiques ensemble, alors même qu’elles ne semblent pas entretenir de liens particuliers. C’est par le plus petit dénominateur commun que la conversation se lie : ce qui rapproche une cheffe de cuisine d’une typographe, ou un metteur en scène d’un sociologue devient donc un terrain fertile pour nourrir la discussion, et extirper de cela l’étrange matière poétique de toute création.

This session of the “Poésie Plateforme” series will bring together novelist and poet Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke and artist Anna Solal in dialogue. Their intense worlds—on the brink of collapse, strewn with fragments and flashes of brilliance—share common concerns, particularly political ones. Their approaches unsettle representations, species, narratives, and landscapes.

Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke and Anna Solal will discuss their working methods, moving from image to imagination, from figure to eccentric, radical, and alluring group portraits, as their creations unfold.

Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke is a novelist, poet, and translator. She is the author of two widely acclaimed novels that established the singularity of her writing: Tabor, a science-fiction narrative (Éditions du Sabot, 2021), and Aliène (Éditions du Sous-Sol, 2024), an anxious and untamed investigation—at once incongruous and realistic. Her latest novel was awarded the Prix du Livre Inter 2024. She has also published a poetry collection co-written with Martin Desinde, titled 18 Brum’Hair (Rotolux Press).

Anna Solal’s work began with collage and the stitching of objects and logos, creating new signifiers where the decorative becomes a driver of strangeness. Expanding her visual “bricolage” processes, her compositions—always highly inventive—now incorporate even the most classical mediums. She exhibits regularly in France and abroad, most recently at FRAC Occitanie in Montpellier and at MAMOTH Gallery in London. She was a resident at the Villa Medici in 2022–2023.