Art in Questions with Cœur de Pirate

Désirée de Lamarzelle: Is there a place where you would like to be able to borrow works on a regular basis?

Coeur de Pirate: There's a young gallery in Montreal called Foil that I really like. It was founded by Frédéric Duquette, who is well known in the world of NFT art under the name FVCKRENDER, and who has reinvested his money in this place. It's a very cool gallery that hosts many exhibitions with artists, especially emerging and local ones.

Désirée de Lamarzelle: An artist you follow on social media?

Coeur de Pirate: Inès Longeviale, whose work on female portraits I adore. I love the way she represents women, reinvents them and her use of colour. I discovered her a few years ago and was immediately charmed.

Désirée de Lamarzelle: A work of art you still don't understand?

Coeur de Pirate: Louise Bourgeois's spider Maman. It's a disturbing, impressive and, inevitably, unsettling work.

Désirée de Lamarzelle: If you were a painting?

Coeur de Pirate: Les Amoureux de Vence by Chagall. Throughout my life, I've always had a connection with this painter: my mother talked about him a lot and he was one of my first gateways into art. She had reproductions of his work in our house, and it was definitely the first painting that made an impression on me. After that, I moved on to other movements, such as Futurism, but Chagall remains a very dreamlike universe that inspires me.

Désirée de Lamarzelle: Which artist would you like to invite to dinner?

Coeur de Pirate: Sophie Calle. I'd like to ask her lots of questions about her creative process. The first time I saw her work was in Montreal, and I was blown away. More recently, I was fascinated by her installation Chasse gardée at Château La Coste: she transformed the marriage announcements in Le Chasseur Français magazine into a work of art by combining them with her photographs, particularly of animals being hunted.

Désirée de Lamarzelle: If you had to sleep in a museum?

Coeur de Pirate: The Fondation Louis Vuitton. The building designed by Frank Gehry is an architectural masterpiece, and the exhibitions are always exciting because of their choice of artists. In fact, I'm very disappointed to have missed David Hockney, which has just ended.

Désirée de Lamarzelle: If you had to pose nude?

Coeur de Pirate: For Yayoi Kusama, an avant-garde contemporary Japanese artist, known in particular for her polka dots, but also her pumpkins. Yes, I can definitely imagine myself transformed into a pumpkin!

Désirée de Lamarzelle: A work that takes you back to your childhood?

Coeur de Pirate: Chagall's The Bride and Groom at the Eiffel Tower – again – but also Matisse's Les Poissons rouges: two posters that were in my mother's house. My relationship with art really began there, in a family environment where images, colours and works of art were part of everyday life. I think my career as a musician and my sense of artistic direction are linked to this sensitivity that I developed as a child.

Article written by Désirée de Lamarzelle, to be found in issue 13 of Oniriq Magazine

Translated by Bethszabee Garner