ELODIE ANTOINE – DELIQUESCENCE
2015-02-02Assembled in a central space are sculptures shown for the first time, and this constitutes the heart of the exhibition as much from a visual as from a metaphorical point of view. These anthropo-morphic forms of braided and sewn hemp, draped over a store-dummy’s tripod or miming a sitting position, are at once intriguing and disquieting: the long blond tresses topped by a diadem, midway between a Disney-princess from the Rapunzel era and the burqa. This play of attraction and repulsion is a constant in the work of Elodie Antoine: as ‘soft’ as they are, her emblematic forms in felt preserve the trace of the sharpened blade that sliced them, that revealed their entrails. Hemp is a new material for the artist. She chose it precisely to create a contrast between the stereotypical image of softness associated with long blond hair, and a coarse texture. The status of these objects is intentionally am-biguous: we find them enumerated in different shapes, affixed to the house’s walls like trophies.
Opposite – Oil rigs, 2014
Exhibition runs through to March 7th, 2015
AEROPLASTICS contemporary
32 rue Blanche
1060 Brussels
Belgium
