Mathilde Fernandez comes from the south of France. She lives and works between Brussels and Paris.

Coming from a milieu of both the visual and performing arts, her musical project began in 2015 when she started exploring the various possibilities of her voice. Today, both electronically and acoustically, there can be heard in her singing clear lyrical influences, reminiscent of Klaus Nomi, Nina Hagen, Kate Bush or else Diamanda Galas. For the production and staging of her clips and visuals, Mathilde enriches her baroque universe through numerous collaborations: Cécile di Giovanni, La Tendre Emeute, Perez, La Femme and more recently the duo “Ascendant Vierge” which she formed with Paul Seul, a founder member of the Casual Gabberz crew.

Breaking the barrier between disciplines has become a necessity for her, leading her to mix different media in a radical way: performance, sound, music, video, installation, theatre, dance, writing and exhibition curating.

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Cécile di Giovanni is an artist, artistic director and scenographer who lives and works in Paris. She explores violence and resistance through the misappropriation of objects and direction. Coming from the generation of millennials, she manipulates the icons, codes and myths which forged her youth to play on the effects which they exercise over her perception of the modern world. She turns misappropriation and stage direction into an outlet, a cathartic means of self-transcendence. At the heart of a violent, scary world, Cécile tries to exorcise her perception of reality – contrasted by the disillusion of past promises – through an intelligent use of symbols and rituals. All her works attempt to arm, protect and transform bodies which are victims of violence. Taking inspiration from real and fictional situations, Cécile di Giovanni tries to unveil through a symbolic strength, along with a certain irony, the power, complexity and the drifting of the human mind when it is pushed into its final defences. 

She has in particular collaborated with the designer Virgil Abloh, the artist Mohamed Bourouissa and the musicians Mathilde Fernandez, Jagwar Twin and Yseult.