Martine Aballéa (born August 11, 1950) is a French-American artist born in 1950.
Early life Aballéa was born on August 11, 1950, in New York. She moved to France in 1973. She followed a scientific and philosophical training before starting to write, take photographs and making installations and art performances.
Work Aballéa finds her sources of inspiration as much in literature as in the material world. Her work is a mix of concept art, photography, writing and installation. Aballéa's projects are about experience, dreams and poetic encounter. Aballéa had solo exhibitions in museums and galleries such as Art in General (New York), the Musée d'art moderne de Paris, the Museum in Progress (Vienna), the LaM (Villeneuve d'Ascq), the Galerie Edouard-Manet (Gennevilliers), the Centre Pompidou and the gallery Art Concept (Paris).
Collections Her work is among others in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the Centre Pompidou and the Fonds national d'art contemporain.
Bibliography Horizons incertains, Les Sables d'Olonne: Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, 2010, Martine Aballéa : roman partiel, Paris: Semiose, 2009, Hôtel passager, Paris : Editions des musées de la ville de Paris, 1999, Sous le soleil, Nice: Villa Arson, 1995, Prisonnière du sommeil, Paris: Flammarion, 1987, Element rage, Joinville le Pont: Presses de la Société B.G.B., 1979
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External links
Martine Aballéa in the Archives of Women Artists (Aware) Martine Aballéa, une vision lumineuse by Philippe Piguet (in French)