Mathilde Dewavrin
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Mathilde Dewavrin is an artist-architect living in Marseille. After studying architecture in Paris and Rio de Janeiro, she moved to Berlin to work as an architect. Her desire to inscribe her work in a politicised approach to today’s dynamics led her to leave conventional structures and move onto less well-trodden paths.
A founding member of Collectif Trouble, Mathilde explores those thematics through the prism of theatre (Balaton Residency + Culture Moves Europe Grant in 2023). She is also a founding member of B.U.I.L.D*lab, a queer-feminist building collective seeking to overturn the mechanisms of domination in the world of construction (Urban Praxis in 2024 + Kultur Formen Grant in 2025). Since 2024, she has been teaching how to write and perform theatre in public spaces at the ENSA Marseille. She just finished a residency with Iméra and Citadelle de Marseille.
While at Cove Park, Mathilde welcomed the local community with a map offering alternative paths to explore the Rosneath Peninsula, the Stonelore Trail. The trails opens up questions about dominant narratives surrounding heritage. Sharing some texts she had been writing during her time at Cove Park, she invited the participants to share stories of their own, stories linking them to stones. Gathering these together, they began building the Stonelore Bestiary, a collection of texts around stones, reading some contributions and exchanging more broadly ideas about the research.
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- Courtesy of Mathilde Dewavrin
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- Mathilde Dewavrin Open Studio at Cove Park (photography, Alex Marrs)
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- Courtesy of Mathilde Dewavrin