Bio
Art is the solution !
Anne Defréville is a visual artist, designer, illustrator and comics artist. She is deeply committed to ecology, and much of her comics work has focused on environmental and animal issues. She has worked in collaboration with INSERM (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and many environmental associations. Her bandes dessinées challenge anthropocentrism in creative, sometimes humorous, and always thought-provoking ways, shifting across autobiography, documentary and science fiction. She is the author of L’Age bleu [The blue age] (2019), which was awarded the 2020 Artemisia Prize for the Environment and the Mouans-Sartoux Prize for best environmental book; Journal anthropique de la cause animale [Anthropogenic diary of the animal cause] (2022); Mémoires d’un cétacé [Memoirs of a cetacean] (2023); and SEFARDIM, l’épopée d’une famille juive durant 3,000 ans [Sefardim, the 3,000-year saga of a Jewish family] (2023).
SEFARDIM
the epic story of a Jewish family lasting 3000 years.
In 1492, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, the first Catholic kings of Spain, ordered all Jews to leave their kingdom. In 2015, King Felipe VI of Spain apologized and offered a form of return to Jewish families expelled 500 years earlier. The opportunity to retrace 3000 years of family history.Of Jewish origin through her father, Anne Defréville questions the meaning of her story. His story also speaks of his desire to find a Spanish nationality, and of the places of memory and documents which evoke his origins. Anne Defréville questions Jewish identity, which for her remained largely silent for a long time. This story woke her up, questioned her. She carries it within her, like a multitude of other stories hidden in the genes.
Rich in details on marine biodiversity, this album takes us on a discovery of cetaceans. What if knowing these mammals better allowed us to reconsider our behavior towards the ocean?
Earth, in the very distant future. Cetacean archaeologists unearth a dolphin's logbook in an Anthropocene stratum. As they read more pages, they deepen their knowledge of the lives of their ancestors and of a time (ours) where relationships between humans and cetaceans move from fascination to destruction and protection... collaboration with MIRACETI
Anthropic diary of the animal cause
January 12th 2022, at Futuropolis.
Help by CNL and Michalski fundation
A naturalist journal made up of encounters, reports, memories, in different environments (food, the luxury industry, health, research ...), which offers the reader an introspection on the contradictory attitude of the man facing animals: his inconsiderate love for animals in the face of their anthropogenic extermination.
The partners of this work are:
Trailer :
TV Show on February 12th 2022
Blue age
Preface of Claire Nouvian
Book Award Committed to the Planet given by Isabelle Autissier,
President of WWF France, at the Mouans-Sartoux Book FestivalPublication on October 3rd at Buchet-Chastel publisher
TRIBULATIONS OF FISH FUNNELS
IN A FUTURE POST APOCALYPTIC
On March 30, 2030, a rain of fine particles falls on the Earth and causes the "retro-evolution" of the men who return to
the state of fish. Raymond Scie, historian, and Brigitte Van Dyck, artist, embark us upon their underwater tribulations in search of the miraculous antidote able to giving them back human form.From encounters to discoveries, whole swathes of Anthropocene drifts emerge: climate disruption, acidification and water pollution, endocrine disruptors, invasive species, loss of biodiversity ...
Will art be the solution? In any case, the alarm is sounded but with a squeaky and poetic humor!
Artemisia women comics book awards 2020
For environnement
On January 9, Artémisia awards its 2020 Environment Prize to Anne Defréville for "The Blue Age - Saving the Ocean", published by Buchet-Chastel editions. The Artémisia association, named after the XVIIth century Italian artist Artémisia Gentileschi, has been working for 13 years to promote the creation of women cartoonists.
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