Odonchimeg Davaadorj’s work draws on different artistic practices and techniques which centre on the artist’s overwhelming interest in her immediate environment. Or rather, environments in the plural, ranging as they do from those associated with her early years in her native rural Mongolia to those of her current life in a western city. They all furnish her with a springboard for the explorations and investigations that feed into her work.

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Davaadorj’s approach highlights the relationship to the other, the commitment

and exchange between artist and public. She creates benevolent modes of interaction, with visitors offered courtesies and treatments. Davaadorj’s desire to connect to the public with this series of modest interactions underscores the community aspect of her art. These “conversations” highlight the collective harmony our societies need.

 

Born in 1990, Odonchimeg Davaadorj graduated from the Ecole Nationale

Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy. Her work has been exhibited at Galerie Premier Regard and the Salon de Montrouge in 2018, the various Salo events, CAC Meymac and Transpalette, Gallery 976 in Ulan-Bator, the Fondation Hermès La Verrière in Brussels and in San Francisco and Beirut.

 

In 2013, she realized a performance at the Palais de Tokyo. She has won a number of awards, including the Salon de Montrouge ADAGP prize, and has been nominated for the Drawing Now 2021 award.

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Image courtesy - ©️ Odonchimeg Davaadorj, Courtesy Backslash Gallery, Paris (@backslashgallery)​