Carmen Perrin (born 1953 in La Paz/Bolivia) lives and works between Geneva and France. In the 1990s, she began to develop works that are closely related to architectural and landscape contexts. Her sculptures explore the connections between different materials and revise their relationships with their space of perception, their interaction with the light, the architectural conditions and the social occurrences of the public space. In her studio, Carmen Perrin conducts research that connects the practice of sculpture and drawing.

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For ‘(re)connecting.earth (02) - Beyond Water’, Carmen Perrin created a work entitled ‘Lignes de fuites’, a 2.30 m long cubic sculpture made of wire, placed on a floating wooden carrier on the edge of the Maison de la Pêche in Geneva. The sculpture was created after a meeting with the users of the fishing building and Perrin’s discovery of the giants that the fishermen make in their workshops for fishing. The artist was impressed by the shape of these devices, which very well express their effectiveness as traps, their obvious fragility and their extremely minimal overall shape. Carmen Perrin’s work is conceived as a response to an extractivist logic that takes from the living without ever returning anything. ‘Lignes de fuites’ takes the form of a professional fishing net, with certain parts slightly modified to create a device that invites the fish to swim inside the interior of this transparent metal architecture, but whose slopes lead them back to an exit.

The challenge of this artistic experiment is to create a poetic and contradictory work, following the craftsmanship of a fisherman, that invites the fish to move safely in a space open to currents.