Mona Varichon

Mona Varichon is an artist and translator living in Paris, currently in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts. Recent exhibitions and screenings of her work include the Jeu de Paume Lab (Paris, France), the ICA London (London, UK), Mascot (Los Angeles, CA), The Renaissance Society (Chicago, IL), u’s (Diamond Valley, Canada), CAPC musée d’art contemporain (Bordeaux, France), High Art (Paris, France), L’Etna (Montreuil, FR), Redcat (Los Angeles, CA), The Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, CA) and The Egyptian Theatre (Hollywood, CA). She is currently translating the memoirs of American underground filmmakers George and Mike Kuchar into French, to be published by her imprint Varichon & Cie.


Mona’s work is featured in the upcoming “Trending” issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal.


"La Cité des art, Épisode 2, Les cours/Classes", 2021
La Cité des art, Épisode 2, Les cours/Classes

HD video, color, stereo sound, 09:54 min
This is the second episode in a four episodes mini-series commissioned by MycoTV for the ICA London’s Cinema 3 broadcast. Set at the Cité Internationale des Arts, the series examines its potential as a meeting ground, informal teaching and learning environment, and a political space. In this episode, we follow residents and non-residents as they attend freestyle dance workshops led by Cité resident Nicolas Faubert.

2021Image courtesy of the artist

"La Cité des arts, Épisode 4, Les couloirs/The corridors", 2021
La Cité des arts, Épisode 4, Les couloirs/The corridors

HD video, color, stereo sound, 07:42 min
This is the fourth episode in a four episode mini-series commissioned by MycoTV for the ICA London’s Cinema 3 broadcast. Set at the Cité Internationale des Arts, the series examines its potential as a meeting ground, informal teaching and learning environment, and a political space. In this episode, we follow Cité resident Nicolas Faubert through corridors filled with the sounds of rehearsing musicians while he relates a recent encounter with the police.

2021Image courtesy of the artist

"Échauffement pour Air", 2020
Échauffement pour Air

(in collaboration with Nicolas Faubert & Jacob Eisenmann)
HD video, color, stereo sound, 25:17 min
This video, commissioned by the Cité Internationale des Arts as a dialogue between resident artists and curators, follows Cité residents as they travel through Paris to different Cité locations, dancing and chatting about funerals and Leonardo Da Vinci while in an auditorium, on the subway, on the Pont Louis Philippe and in the unruly gardens of Montmartre.

2020Image courtesy of the artist.

"And What Made Me Think Of You", 2016
And What Made Me Think Of You

HD video, color, stereo sound, 10:00 min
Reached over the phone, the artist’s mother gets ready for work while describing streets, phantom limbs, bygone vineyards and native butterfly trees that recently reminded her of her daughter.

2016Image courtesy of the artist