Chloé Binh-Cirlot is a French artist, architect, researcher practitioner based in Berlin. She graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts in 2023 with a master's degree in architecture. Her transdisciplinary experience lies at the crossroads of the creation and ethnography of spatial practices, together with video and sound art. As well as attempting to bring people together, her exploratory and reflective projects speak of socially engaged emancipatory research based on practice and oriented towards process and experimentation, aiming to question the boundaries of these disciplines and push their limits. Chloé touches sustainable sufficiency from art, spirituality, language, psychosomatics, the spatio-temporal origin of cultures, and perspectives that are more than eurocentric and more than human-centered.
She takes an interest in the incorporation and embodiment of safe space as a critical spatial practice. She strives to create a moment of conflictual balance that welcomes fragile and courageous openness and nurtures the encounter of diversity capable of respectful coexistence of differences. Chloé approaches her role as mediator with care, sensitivity, empathy and humility.
She is interested in the potential of artistic practice and art-based research to accompany this mediation, and to infuse meaning into these projects and to all those who take part in them, particularly through the possible breakthrough provided by this dimension. Chloé looks at the potential evocative nature of artistitic expression and the possibility of its subtlety to, on the one hand, diversify appropriation in order to sketch out inclusive participation, and, on the other, to compose the entry point to a project as well as to realise the open-endedness of its purpose. All these tactics demonstrate a certain risk-taking and speak of generousity and sincerity within a radical and intuitive approach.
She is concerned with intertwining the manifestation of projects with their documentation, regardless of the stage the project is in. Her projects travel through a variety of curious languages to narrate the nuances of their story to an ever-widening audience. Chloé adopts an attitude of raw transparency, using self-referential and self-critical methods, which fall within an almost auto-ethnographic perspective. What is expressed highlights the broader social and political movements associated with the projects on a local scale. The generative force of sharing these actions speaks of an impulse to cultivate their fields.