ÉLODIE ANTOINE
ROSALÍA BANET
WIEBKE BARTSCH
BARBARA BERNSTEINER
TANIA CANDIANI
BARBARA CAVENG
LADA CERAR
ANDREJKA ČUFER
JOCHEN FLINZER
CLAUS FÖTTINGER
ZUZANNA JANIN
METKA KAVČIČ
JUSTYNA KOEKE
MICHAEL KOS
EDUARD LESJAK
MARTIN LÖFFKE
POLONA MAHER
ISA MELSHEIMER
JANET MORTON
ALEN OŽBOLT
SANDRINE PELLETIER
MARIJA MOJCA PUNGERČAR
IRIS SCHIEFERSTEIN
SAŠO SEDLAČEK
CHIHARU SHIOTA
KEI TAKEMURA
ANDRÉ TEMPEL
ANU TUOMINEN
JULIA VAN KOOLWIJK
MARJOLIJN VAN DER MEIJ
PETRA VARL
PATRICIA WALLER
SILKE WAWRO

Élodie Antoine


Untitled, 2004 (sheet, underwear, shirt, silicon, wallpaper)
(detail of the installation)

In the work of Elodie Antoine, thread shows at two levels: on the one hand it is used as an application, i.e. as a means of drawing, and on the other hand it serves as a means of completing the artwork. The installation presents a women's corner offering space for
dreaming, longing, fantasies, hopes and esotericism, a sphere to which many people recourse
in these uncertain times. The installation is marked by a metaphysical ambience, and in places
it has a note of self-irony. Especially eloquent are the materials employed as the main compositional elements of the metaphysical ambience. For example, the sculptural object exhibited on the floor represents a snake reminiscent of a suckling pillow. It is sewn out of unfashionable, non-seductive, skin-coloured bras normally worn by bosomy ladies – such bras are synonymous with asexuality. The skin colour and pieces of undergarments are also used in the cycle of wall-mounted works featuring elastic panties, which promise slimness and firmness, as paintings. The artist shows her profuse irony precisely in these objects, which induce associations with an imaginary female personality inhabiting the presented ambience, a woman addicted to longing and desire and esoteric promises, which are symbolised, for example, by embroidered motifs of pubic hair presented amidst flowers, a Celtic mystical configuration and mandalas of Buddhist monks. In short, the historic character and applicability of thread as a material, which has been the domain of women and their creativity for centuries, makes it ideal for the expression of the aforementioned fantasies, longings and hopes.

Born in 1978 in Belgium. She studied at Académie des B-A d'Arlon, Académie d'été de
Libramont and La Cambre in Brussels, where she graduated in sculpture in 2002 under Guy Bauclair. In 2002 she won the first prize of the Communauté Française – Œuvre de petit
format, and in 2004 the title Lauréate du prix du Luxembourg Arts Plastiques. Her works are exhibited in the following collections: Collection de la Province de Hainaut, Collection de la ville de Dudelange, and Collection du Musée en Plein air de Liège.

Solo exhibitions (selection):

2007 Galerie Desimpel, Brussels
Ara Lunae Gallery, Arlon
2006 La robe de mariée, Lace Museum of Brussels, based on the novel by Valerie Nimal, with the scenographer Nathalie Canivet, Brussels
2005 Playtex by Elodie Antoine, The WETM Generation: Ad!dicted to Branding in the BOZAR, Brussels
Galerie Desimpel, Brussels
Feutrines, Arte Coppo Gallery, Verviers
2004 Sculptures hospitalières, CHU of Liege, Open Air Museum of Sart Tilman, Liege

Group exhibitions (selection):

2006 Espace Sol Gallery, Ars Longa, Seou
2004 Storage, the warehouse of the museum, collections of the province of Hainaut at the B.P.S. 22 in Charleroi, Brussels
2003 Crêpage de chignons III, Dominique Lang Gallery & Nei Liicht Gallery, Dudelange
Camper with Eric Croes, David de Tscharner, Geneva
2001 A LOUER, with Alain Fini, Brussels

http://www.lagalerie.be/elodie/
http://www.playtextemporarygallery.be