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Mathilde Neri  

Mathilde Neri was born in Noyon (Fr) on January 26, 1982. She grew up in Italy.

Friendship, love, life, have given rise to a number of meetings with personalities of the world of Art, in the region of Emilia Romagna, and oriented her future. She collaborated with Zapruder Filmmakers Group from 2001 to 2006, as an actress in several Art films; Boboutic a knitwear collection from 2000 to 2009, for whom she is a model; the dance duo Nhandan Chirco and Branko Popovic, from 2005 to 2008, for whom she composed the music for the pieces Two, variations on identity and Play it Again; Motus Teatro in 2008, with whom she participated in the play Prime indagini sulla ribellione di Antigone (First investigation around the rebellion of Antigone), as an actress and musician.

From 2004 to 2009, she actively contributed to the Hotel Nuclear collective on projects such as: Condensed Novels, performance, 2004; end game…, video/installation/performance, 2006; VC - Végétation Colonisatrice, video/installation/performance, 2009; IS - Never Ending, video commissioned in 2009. In 2008, she received the Giovani filmmakers prize from the San Fedele Gallery in Italy. With HN, she was invited to many international festivals and events. But if her career began in 2004, it was only in 2016, in Reunion Island, that it was recognized by institutions.

Since her installation, she has had the honor of collaborating with: Arashka (music), performer with her two females (free humanized survivor birds), for the production of the Vilte Take Sukanya video clip, ARASHKARASU project, 2024; Mounir Alloui (cinema) service provider on a podcast about Japanese culture from 1947-1989, and particularly on images of the monstrous feminine in Asian cinema; collaboration performer on a video-graphic project, premises in progress, 2024; Sylvette Annibal (dancer, choreographer) collaboration on the performance Lysistrata, lesenveloppes de grâce, 2024; RoullerKiller (Zan Amamoutou, music) and France Laope (singing and performance) collaboration on the performative project Ceci est ma sève, 2022; Kristof Langromme (theater) service provider as a musician for Radio Arc-en-Ciel, 2015; collaboration for the realization of workshops with the CLEA of Saint-André, 2023; Kaloune (music, singing, writing) service provider for the performance of the text My body Your body; collaboration on workshops with the CLEA of Saint André, 2023; Blindoff (light Art) collaboration on the collective performance EARTH, SEA, SKY, rites of flowering, hatching and transmutation, with the students of the Bellepierre high school as part of a residency in school territory 2021; YOKONDA (music) collaboration on the performance Allegory of Creation, 2021; service provider on the performance Loosing my Virginity, 2023.

She obtained the National Diploma of Art at the ESA of Reunion and won the Iconographic Heritage residency grant at the Iconothèque - IHOI in 2022.

Mathilde Neri currently lives and works between Reunion Island and Italy.