BIOGRAPHIE DES ARTISTES
Eric Szerman et Camille Turlot poursuivent conjointement depuis plus de vingt ans une activité d’artistes et une activité de pédagogues.
Après un parcours de 15 ans dans le spectacle vivant, 5 pièces à l’affiche àParis, et après avoir été lauréats de la fondation Beaumarchais SACD, ilsont créé en 2016, le duo d’art contemporain N2U.
En 2017, ils exposent au Tri Postal et à l’international (Israël, Pérou, Grèce, Italie). En 2018, leur création Chiromancie est distinguée comme meilleure création de la Nuit Blanche Paris par France Inter.
Elle est ensuite exposée à la Villette en 2019, avant de partir en tournée enItalie sous l’égide de la Ville de Paris et de l’Institut Français avec un arrêtau museo Marino Marini de Florence et en Suisse au musée de Morat ainsiqu’au musée d’art et d’histoire de Fribourg-Espace Niki de Saint Phalle-Jean Tingueley en 2020.
Parallèlement, Eric Szerman et Camille Turlot sont subventionnés par leCentre National du Livre pour leur travail dans les médiathèques et ledépartement du Val-de-Marne leur demande de créer 7 installations participatives interactives autour de la poésie Chapitre Poésie pour le festival « Les échappées ».
Ils créent aussi pour le réseau des micro-folies, Chapitre Beaux-arts, une oeuvre interactive en partenariat avec la RMN, le musée d’Orsay, le musée Picasso, le musée Guimet et la Micro-Folie Sevran, première du réseau des Micro-Folies.
De juillet 2020 à Juin 2021, cette oeuvre a été présente ausein de 25 micro-folies dans toute la France.
En 2022, ils exposent sous la curation de James Bradburne « Etre Humain» pour La Pinacoteca di Brera à Milan en Italie avec le soutien renouveléde la ville de Paris - Institut français pour la période 2020-2023 pour l’ensemble de leurs expositions à l’étranger (Colombie, USA) et ont présenté au Palais Fesch à Ajaccio la même oeuvre en 2023.
Ils viennent enfin de terminer une résidence au Musée de Sedan avec l’exposition numérique « Les collections du musée ont la parole » avec le soutien de la région Grand Est et du département des Ardennes, suivie de la création de « Voyage à travers le temps « à l’occasion des journées du patrimoine autour du projet du chevalement de Rimogne, soutenu par la fondation du patrimoine dans le cadre de la mission Bern.
Ils préparent en ce moment à la demande de la Région Grand Est une œuvre hommage à Jules Verne « Vingt mille Lieux sous la terre », voyage fantastique sous-marin au coeur de l’anthropocène et pour l’éco-musée de Vieron en Belgique, ils travaillent sur deux œuvres transfrontalières.
N2U is a contemporary art French group created in 2016.
N2U is a French contemporary art duo created in 2016. At its origin are artists Eric Szerman (director and composer) and Camille Turlot (video-maker, author and performer). Both trained musicians with a degree in business for Eric and one in philosophy for Camille, they started working together in Paris 15 years ago.
First as founders of “Les artisans de la voix” a professional artist training center subsidized by the French state. They dealt also with private clients such as Oscar winner's Juliette Binoche or corporations like Disneyland Paris serving as vocal and acting supervisor for their shows.
Then they went on producing, writing and directing their own shows in Paris, France, for ten years. Awarded people's choice in Cannes for Epouse-moi! / Marry-me! (2007), winning Best authors by Beaumarchais-SACD (French writer society) for Les Indifférents / The Outcast (2008) which was also commissioned by the Region Ile-de-France to fight against discrimination (2009), commissioned to write a musical adaptation of Poil de Carotte / The Redhead (2012), they never stopped pushing the boundaries of subject matter and storytelling through text and music.
In 2014, for their new theatre project, they’ve decided to explore transmedia storytelling and created a web series called Comédien(ne)s. The web series was chosen by Arte Creative, to be on their home page for ten weeks.
In 2015, happy with the success of this new experience, they’ve decided for their new project La française (La francesa) to include video-projection, mapping and installations on stage in order to create new forms of narrative. Interaction between actors and video built new possibilities to express their views on the world and their aesthetic.
In 2016, they form N2U, as an organic part of their artistic development, to break through the fourth wall and continue experimenting digital art in all its possibilities.
In two years, they have exhibited in Tripostal in Lille, France, have performed in the museum complex of Siena and at la Gare saint Sauveur in Lille, and have been selected by the Jerusalem and Cuzco video art festivals and the Eye’s Walk festival has commissioned them a video to be projected at the Greek ministry of Culture, In 2018, their new interactive, performative and immersive video art installation CHIROMANCY for "La Nuit Blanche 2018" in Paris won best installation and opened new opportunities, being sponsored by the city of Paris and Institut francais to tour Europe, exhibiting in Digital art festival and being commisionned by state cultural institution to create several participative art interactive installation around litterature and visual arts in collaboration Public libraries and major musuems . (see list of exhibit below).
December 2020 - July 2020 Exhibit of their interactive, performative and immersive installation CHAPTER- BEAUX ARTS in 25 digital museums in France, in collaboration with 5 majors french museums (RMN, musée d’Orsay, musée Picasso, musée Guimet, musée Quai Branly), La villette and La micro folie Sevran.
July 2020 - September 2019 Creation of their interactive and immersive installation CHAPTER- BEAUX ARTS in collaboration with 5 majors french museums (RMN, musée d’Orsay, musée Picasso, musée Guimet, musée Quai Branly) and La villette for La micro folie Sevran.
March 2020 - September 2019 Creation of 5 CHAPTER sponsored by the Val de Marne Department to promote Poetry.
January 2020 Exhibit of their interactive & immersive installation CHIROMANCY in Museum of Morat in Switzerland.
November - September 2019 Creation of two CHAPTER sponsored by the Val de Marne Department to promote Poetry.
October 2019, Exhibit of their interactive & immersive installation CHIROMANCY during the contemporary art festival Nuit Blanche 2019 in Charleville-Mézieres/
July 2019, exhibit of CHAPTER for the children public hospital sponsored by the french minestry of culture and national book center.
May 2019 Exhibit of CHAPTER at the french Saint Orens Digital Festival
April 2019 - May 2019 Exhibit of CHIROMANCY on a tour of Italy in Turino (Alliance française), Novi Ligure (Novi Light festival), Firenze (Museo Marino Marini) sponsored by the city of Paris and Institut Français.
March 2019 Exhibit of CHIROMANCY at the french digital festival Les Safra’numériques
January 2019 Creation of CHAPTER , an art participative project for the Alfortville Public Library
January 2019 Exhibit of CHIROMANCY at la Folie Numérique to celebrate their oneyear anniversary at la Villette.
October 2018, Creation of their interactive & immersive installation CHIROMANCY during the contemporary art festival Nuit Blanche 2018 in Paris, France named Best installation by France Inter (national public radio).
August 2018, Projection of the Stain at the Lima Film Festival. Lima, Peru.
July 2018, Creation of their new video interactive in situ installlation MIXITE for le trop plein, a cultural non profit organization in Montreuil, France.
June 2018, Andalucìa is projected in the street as part of the Trikala's Festival of Art and Music in Trikala, Greece
January 2018, they are part of the group exhibition “Brought to light” in Paris and create two new works: The reflectors, an interactive installation and Artificial Dumbness, a video sculpture. For the first time, they are experimenting with 3D modelisation and 3D printing.
November 2017, their new video art The stain is part of the official selection for the video Babel Festival in Cuzco, Peru.
July 2017, Andalucìa is part of the Eye's walk festival in the island of Syros, Greece.
May 2017, The Eye's walk festival comissions the video "The interview by N2U" to be broadcast at the Ministry of culture in Athens, Greece.
March 2017, Anthropomorphing is selected for the opening of the show organized by the collective (C)Omsoz in Galerie Louchard in Paris, France.
January 2017, they are invited to present their performance Anthropomorphing at the international conference meteoriti" Breaking culture" organized by the Museum Complex of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy.
December 2016, their art video Andalucia is selected for the AVI festival , the international art video festival in Jerusalem, Israel.
November 2016, they win 3 merit awards for the same work at Le Tri Postal's Maker Faire in Lille, France.
July 2016, they hold their first exhibition “Sacred Fires” with the collective Autrement at Espace St Laurent, Verneuil s/ Avre, France. The works presented are Anthropomorphing, a digital performance, and Don’t look the sun in the eye, a video-installation.
THEATRE WORK
2015 La Française / The French woman, play with songs and video-installation
2014 Comédien(ne)s / Actors, the web-series (10 episodes) Selected by Arte Creative, the French-German cultural channel TV equivalent to PBS to be promoted on their digital platform.
2014 Comédien(ne)s / Actors, play with songs at theatre Comédie Bastille.
2012-2013 Poil de Carotte / The redhead, musical adaptation of J. Renard’s novel. Commissioned by the D. Eguren Company. Presented on tour.
2009-2010 Les Indifférents / The Outcast, musical with video-installation at l’Oeuvre
2007-2009 Epouse-moi! / Marry me!, off-Broadway like musical