I chose to be an artist because in a way that was the hardest thing I could do. It is the place where all choices seemed to be open to me, and it’s also the place where I feel I can offer the people who look at my work an area of freedom. More and more, we are told what to think; we are fed what we are supposed to be fed; we lose and lose the possibilities of making choices for ourselves. For me, it is important that art remains a place where all choices are possible, all opinions are possible, all gestures are possible--where you are constantly deciding for yourself where you might go, or where you might also go to places you haven’t decided.
So that it is really about an adventure that never stops and a way of relating to the world that is never closed, where all the questions keep being asked, and it’s the way in which I feel the most alive. If I stop work, suddenly my relation to the world disappears. I guess I relate to the world through my work.
Anne Rochette. Sculptor. Paris, France. Ms. Rochette received a Diplome Superieur D’Arts Plastiques, Ecole Nationale Superierue des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and an M.A. from New York University. Her solo exhibitions include Maison d’Art Contemporain Chaillioux in Fresnes, the Galerie J. Rabouan-Moussion in Paris, and Pretto/Berland/Hall Gallery in NYC. She is the recipient of awards from New York Foundation for the Arts, the NEA, and the Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres.
