Margaux Parillaud and Mie Frederikke Fischer Christensen is a French/Danish artist duo based in between Amsterdam and Chicago. The two have been working together since 2014 and graduated together from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie's audiovisual department.
Their work emerge from a mutual interest in the way film, TV and pop culture reinforce social constructs such as the homosocial relationships between women, objectification, power, violence and desire. While Margaux and Frederikke’s work is interdisciplinary and shape-shifts between media as the work evolves, their “final” works gravitates towards film, installation and performance and often involve elaborate set designs and constructions that enters a dialogue with the space it is build in. The space and the installed elements are activated by performance and becomes a part of a choreography where body and site collaborate. Referencing familiar aesthetics of TV and film as well as hollywood film tropes, Margaux and Frederikke creates a platform for social commentary by inviting risk, uncertainty and ephemerality into safe, never changing, stale and staged environments.
Their practice embrace an awareness of the duality, and struggles of collaborative practice. Margaux and Frederikke's process and its effect on their relationship is an important part of their work as they both celebrates the moments of love, joy and the safety of togetherness, while also reflecting upon the struggle to keep balance in a relationship where there’s always gonna be questions of ownership, freedom and flexibility. There is a thin line between collaboration and competition, between violence and affection, and their experience walking this line is a constant provider for artistic material and inspiration.