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Roxanne Maillet is a French artist, graphic designer and activist.

Biography
She is a committed designer, involved in alternative underground and activist networks. Her work is part of a feminist dyke perspective, a concern for visibility and emancipation. Her practice mixes graphic design, typography, performance and writing. She also develops a typographic research work in a fluid and non-binary gender perspective with notably around inclusive writing and non-gendered glyphs, which is expressed in different forms such as workshops, reading groups, books, typographies, t-shirts, fanzines, and posters.

During the workshops she organises, which act as a collective practice, she invites the participants to question themselves on the possible alternatives of conjugations and pronouns that the hetero-normative French language imposes on us, alternatives of inclusive writing in order to propose more representative formulations than those where the basic masculine language has been imposed as a generic and neutral form.

Her inspirations are: lesbian sub-cultures, riot grrrls, Women House, Sister Corita Kent.

Education
She graduated from a DNA Design Graphic with honors, National School of Fine Arts of Lyon in 2015.

She also graduated from Design Graphic, ERG; Graphic Research School, Brussels in 2017.

Career
Graphic Designer at Girls Heart Brussels. Girls Heart Brussels is looking at Brussels from a female, feminist, queer and artistic perspective, with a focus on its lesbian, queer, and feminist initiatives.

Founder of the Cave Club in Brussels, it is an underground space, where she invites authors to submit their oral writings for transcription, transformation and exchange with the participants. The Cave Club project saw the light of day in 2016, it was in the cellar of his old apartment that was organised in the form of meetings that borrow the codes of literary salons. The Cave Club project was born out of successive questions about voices (plural), speaking and speaking. Speech as a tool, making it possible to form minority communities that are built in response to models or norms that do not suit them. Her research has taken her along the path of the 16th century literary salons which are crucial in providing the opportunity to respond to the need for women to invent adequate tools to make their voices heard. Adrienne Monnier, Sylvia Beach or Nathalie Barney in which the transmission of ideas in general, feminist and queer in particular, necessarily went through the voice which played the role of broadcaster of these collective struggles. But where and in what form do traces of these precious exchanges remain? The Cave Club is founded on the basis of this question. These are readings followed by an exchange between the reader or the author and the listeners that allow us to question the forms of adaptation of a written text into the spoken word.

In parallel to his readings, various editorial objects are produced which transcribe these exchanges between authors and listeners, which allow us to question the forms of adaptation from oral to writing. Drawing on the “camp” aesthetic, a word first used by Susan Sontag to designate the questioning of the artifice of received ideas and clichés of the genre through excessive characters. She created: Out of Closet In 2017, which is a collection of words screened on t-shirts. She produces t-shirts with messages from event slogans, hijacking of logos of major brands or titles of works of paralitterature. These message t-shirts serve as tools for political demands and as distinctive signs between a wider lesbian community. Produced in small quantities for specific events.

She founded with Auriane Preud’homme the magazine Phylactère, a magazine that gives shape to orality, it is a magazine that contains multiple voices. The revue Phylactère was born from a desire to explore writing and orality and the possible transcriptions of performance having as a goal the transcription of performances. The journal is published annually, each issue of which is titled an onomatopoeia that will set the tone for the journal. The first issue is entitled «Patati-patata»; inexhaustible chatter, word of mouth.

Fusion is a collective created in 2019 and composed of Cécile Bouffard, Roxanne Maillet and Clara Pacotte. Together they compose the publication Vnouje, a lesbian epic in episodes, each time increased in a new city. Vnouje’s rebirths give rise to ephemeral installations, original cocktails and readings with multiple voices.

Work

 * Graphic design of «Que Faire ?», Liv Schulman (édition) 2018.
 * Graphic Designer at Girls Heart Brussels (visual identity and logo) since 2018.
 * T-shirt design "AS EGGS T-SHIRT ": Screen-printed t-shirts during the exhibition "From Mondyke to Sundyke", Lafayette Anticipations, at the invitation of Roxane Maillet. Each t-shirt is unique and has printing and placement peculiarities, non-contractual photos. February 2020.
 * T-shirt design "DANSER = VIVRE" with Elodie Petit for ACT UP 🔺 ART = ACTION⁠ Act Up and MAC VAL are joining forces and mobilizing against HIV / AIDS, asserting the interventional nature of their struggles, which is illustrated in particular by a committed artistic and cultural approach that questions representations as well as political advocacy. On this occasion around twenty contemporary artists were invited to design original t-shirts based on the historical slogan equations of Act Up (anger = action, action = life, silence = death, racism = death, information = power, dance = live…). (T-shirt) 14 November 2020.

Expositions- Workshops

 * Gender fluid : Bye bye binary —possible imaginations around an inclusive typography, at RoSa Library (Brussels) on 14, 15 and 16 november 2018. Workshop - research session (Roxanne Maillet, Tiphaine Kazi-Tani and Hélène Mourrier). RoSa is a center of expertise in the status of women, feminism and gender studies. The RoSa library, located in the center of Brussels, has the largest polyglot collection on gender and feminism in Belgium.
 * Vnouje 1, at Duplex (Geneva) on 26 June 2019. Flight of fancy invites FUSION (Cécile Bouffard, Roxanne Maillet, Clara Pacotte) for the launch of VNOUJE’s first issue, a collective and evolving lesbian epic.


 * Vnouje 2, at La Friche Belle de Mai (Marseille) in August 2019 (Rum Perrier Menthe Citron exhibition)


 * Articulate Baragouiner Causer (Aiguilles-en-Queyras) October to December 2019. The contemporary art center invited Roxane Maillet to do a residency with two classes from the Pasteur primary school in Embrun, and two classes from the school in Aiguilles-en-Queyras from October to December 2019. The classes concerned: CP and CP-CE1 students from the Pasteur school in Embrun, and all students from GS to CM2 at Aiguilles-en-Queyras school.
 * Vnouje 3, at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris in February 2020 (From Moondyke to Sundyke residence)


 * From mondyke to sundyke starts saturdyke, at lafayetteanticipations Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 February 2020. Workshop on lesbian visual (counter-) cultures. With Géraldine Gourbe (exhibition curator and art critic). Lesbian visual (counter) cultures - leaflets, posters, editions, flyers - have largely contributed to the emancipation movements of women, gays and the fight against AIDS. However, they are still the poor relation of both graphic design and memorial practices. Interested by this observation, Roxane Maillet and Géraldine Gourbe would like to reactivate the spirit of the «dyke of dykes», Monique Wittig «Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent». Screen printing marathon on textiles with Céline Le Gouail, RER Q, Marine Peixoto, Clara Prioux, Louise Siffert, Eaapes Cheapest, Élise Carron, Eugénie Lempaszak. Launch of the new issue of the review «Vnouje» with Cecile Bouffard and Clara Pacotte.
 * Launch of the journal Phylactère number 1"Patati Patata", at GLASSBOX (Paris) 11 on 24 octobre to 25 octobre 2020 (Roxanne Maillet and Auriane Preud’homme).