PATRICK BERNIER  and OLIVE MARTIN first met at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. They have worked together for several years and developed a varied body of work combining writing, photography, installation, film and performance.

PATRICK BERNIER was born in 1971 in Paris and selectively participates in group exhibitions in France and abroad and gives accounts of the projects deployed on these occasions by the intermediary of a collaboration with Carlos Ouedraogo, a storyteller from Burkina Faso. He was also an activist for an association for solidarity with immigrant workers in Nantes, giving legal and writing assistance. He is engaged in the struggle for equal rights between Europeans and foreigners, notably in terms of freedom of movement and settlement.

OLIVE MARTIN was born in 1972 in Liège and works in a way that questions the notion of identity, its travesties and its tendencies and pursues the idea of an “ordinary singularity” in her photos and installations. In 2005 she also produced a book titled Common Objects in collaboration with the American writer April Durham, published by Editions Joca Seria in Nantes.