"We the People" at Walk Bye - Congregation B'nai Jacob, Jersey City - 2021

 “We the People” at part of the group exhibition “- /ˈradək(ə)l/ - roots, body & fruit” on January 28, 2021 at the Congregation B'nai Jacob of Jersey City - 176 West Side Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07305

Curated by Catalina Aranguren 

The show is inspired by the Jewish holiday Tu b'Shevat - translated literally as “New Year for the trees”. It is celebrated in contemporary Israel, as an ecological awareness day, and trees are planted in celebration. Walk-Bye held open submissions for artwork starting mid December, calling on local artists to explore the duality of how a festival of trees, growth and prosperity happens in the winter within the context of personal, spiritual, and intellectual growth.

Projections for "Jersey City Nucracker" at Nimbus Dance Works, December 2018

Jersey City Nucracker at Nimbus Dance Works, December 11-22, 2018

"Nimbus Dance Works announces the ninth year of the company's annual holiday tradition: Jersey City Nutcracker. Jersey City Nutcracker tells the story of two children's urban holiday adventure leading them through fantasy, adversity and celebration and teaching them lessons about friendship and community along the way. Choreographed and directed by Nimbus Artistic Director Samuel Pott, this adaption of Tchaikovsky's holiday classic is performed by a stand-out cast of professional dancers from Nimbus Dance Works joined by youth and adults from the community as they portray familiar characters such as the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Rat King, and Drosselmeyer - all with a Jersey City twist! Amidst colorful sets, costumes, a brightly adorned tree, youth and adults alike are touched by this tale of Christmas spirit. This year’s performances feature an exciting new component: video mapping and projection design by award-winning video artists Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger."

Tickets available online

With: Justin Perez, Hannah Weeks, Brandy White, Victoria Santaguida, Giacomo Bavutti, LeighAnn Curd, Wilson Mayo, Shayla Hutton, Mika Greene, Jameliah MookMook Cunningham, Lauren Stucko, Eury German, Mark Anthony Rizo, Stephanie Beauchamp and Samuel Pott

Goldman Sachs is the Lead Sponsor of Jersey City Nutcracker 2018










Pictures by Isabelle Duverger

March 2013: Design of poster for Jollification | Mortification at La MaMa, New York

banner designed for Facebook and La MaMa Theater official website

Official Poster for the play Jollification | Mortification

A theatrical collage on missed connections, hysteria and mortality.
Jollification | Mortification invites characters from previous New Stage productions to join in a playful night that continues the provocative, expansive conversation on modernity, mortality, morality and the self that New Stage has established with its audience over the past ten years. Taking a tragicomic perspective on what it means to be true to the self, and what the consequences of such honesty can be, the show examines the feelings of shame, doubt, and exhilaration that come with running afoul of norms and expectations.

Illustration and Poster designed by Isabelle Duverger (original idea by Ildiko Nemeth and Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin)

Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
Stage Design by Ildiko Nemeth
Lighting Design by Federico Restrepo
Costume Design by Brandon Olson
Sound Engineering by Gideon Grossman
Music Selection by Ildiko Nemeth
Set Construction by Jeff Hermanski and Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin

Cast: Brandon Olson*, Chris Tanner, Markus Hirnigel*, Kaylin Lee Clinton, Sarah Lemp, Dana Boll, Catherine Correa, Jeanne Lauren Smith, Denice Kondik, Valerie Miller, Lisa Kathryn Hokans, Galway McCullough, Adam Boncz
(*These Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association)

Principal Administrator: Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin

Jollification | Mortification is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 

February 24, 2013: Prologue by Maria Litvan

February 24 at 6pm
CPR - Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn
Tickets: $10 in advance or at the door

Conceived and directed by Maria Litvan

Performed by Catherine Correa and Francisco Reyes
Music Design by Nana Simopoulos
Drawing by Isabelle Duverger
Video projections by Laia Cabrera & Co.

Prologue is a tribute to French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil (1909- 1943). Simone Weil, described by Albert Camus as “the only great spirit of our times” and by Susan Sontag as “one of the most uncompromising and troubling witnesses to the modern travail of the spirit.” Weil had an extraordinary capacity to dwell within highly philosophical and metaphysical thought, while still emphasizing the importance of embodied experience. She realized that in order to theorize about the working-class, one had to experience their reality firsthand. Thus, despite her poor health conditions, she left her teaching position to work in a factory. Weil’s passionate nature also drove her to participate in many of the political affairs of her time. She confronted Trotsky, fought in the Spanish Civil war, participated in the French Resistance… But, even more unusual for a leftist intellectual of her time, Weil’s interests increasingly focused on religion and mysticism.

Most of Simone Weil’s writings are annotations of thoughts following her own mental associations, thus reading them is like entering directly into Weil’s stream of consciousness. Inspired by her writings, Prologue is a composition of moments – snapshots into Weil’s life and thought. It is an invitation to enter her world from a personal and sensorial experience. Simultaneously, as an actor prepares to interpret Simone Weil, Prologue reflects on the mystical and artistic processes, and the important role of the invisible in the construction of meaning.

February 2013: Flows of Life with Paisley

Flows of Life

Illustration by Isabelle Duverger

My first exhibition: The Vortex by The Six Betweens Art Collective

THE VORTEX - A Solstice Celebration and Art Gathering
Friday June 22, 2012
The Six Betweens Art Collective
112 W. 138th Street, #3F, New York, NY 10030

Join our 'beyond art' event, with visual art, music, drinks and community
The June Solstice is always so special for us, with birthdays, anniversaries... This year, 2012, its energy is going to be particularly powerful, and we'd like
to honor its transforming power by hosting a creative art event in which each attendant can co-create, sing and share at will.
Presenting work by Raquel Berzosa, Laia Cabrera, Isabelle Duverger, José Villalón, David Allen and more!

Although the event is open to all, there is a $10 suggested donation for drinks, food, and production costs

Presenting there the 4-piece illustration series Paisley and the videoart piece Inx-Mix with Laia Cabrera:

Rebirth, 2011

In the exhibition, June - August 2012

2012 Latest Illustrations

Women

Rising

Illustration by Isabelle Duverger

January 22, 2012: Noyer Le Poisson

Illustration by Isabelle Duverger

January 21, 2012: First Snow

And how we over-use heat when we feel it's going to be cold...

Illustration by Isabelle Duverger

January 2012: Medias

illustration by Isabelle Duverger

september 2011: Rebirth with Paisley

The unconscious speaking... After a baby shower. Nothing relating to tho...

Rebirth

Illustration by Isabelle Duverger

September 2011: Dreams

For a week, day after day, I have been confused by the hyper-realism of my dreams, tormented in the morning by their stories, spending the day trying to understand them and falling asleep trying to finish them. But in the next morning, I would have another story to add to the others, unfinished.

Dreams

Illustration by Isabelle Duverger

Grafitis - Real or Virtual

Eye on Lower East Side wall

Caterpillar on Jersey City wall

Picture and illustration by Isabelle Duverger

August 2011: Spirit and Love, and other things...

Spirit

Spirit

Longing

Love

Time

Death

After

Photography/Illustration by Isabelle Duverger

August 2011: Irene

Illustration by Isabelle Duverger

And I am thankful that, were I live, Irene was only a nightmare...

August 2011: A paisley / cashmere motif

I started working with a woman passionate about paisley, where it came from, how it got exported from India, and ended up being altered, transformed and placed in the most unusual places, think of the latest place you saw these motifs.

Illustration by Isabelle Duverger

August 2011: A version of: the social medias

drawing by Isabelle Duverger

July 2011: Water Cycles

drawing by Isabelle Duverger

August 2011: Over Land

Drawing by Isabelle Duverger

Mindless Drawings... SERIES

Modern Elements

Nuisances

Drawings by Isabelle Duverger