Tectonics 2025 Artist Profile
B茅n茅dicte Davin
Bénédicte Davin (1963) is a vocalist and visual artist.
Annabelle Dupret describes her work as follows: "The performativity of her body is situated at the meeting point of composition, vocal matter, and the proliferation of phonemes, real musical escapes, freed from any nominative requirement, where the breath itself can appear as a sign. This
approach reveals the body as a stave. Anatomy is the ultimate element, like a membrane stretched between the inner voice and the discordant polyphony of the world, which gives the body the sense of sound and the letter from which everything can arise."
After studying visual arts, she followed vocal and theatrical training that led her to music and performance. While conducting various musical experiments, she studied improvisation and parallel music at the Royal Conservatory of Liège. The interpretation of Lettrist, Futurist, Dadaist and contemporary works influences her compositions, mixtures of "sonzephonemes" and vocal materials taken from their daily lives. Their transcription gives rise to a writing made of musical and graphic annotations in connection with her visual work.
