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Visual artist Élodie Antoine lives and works in Brussels. Her work makes use of flexible textile materials such as felt, fabric, thread, lace, wallpaper but also more rigid materials such as glass recently. The combination of these different elements gives rise to surprising hybrid sculptures with multiple excrescences.

The artist also enjoys revisiting objects of the everyday life (chair, frame, sink, armchair, etc.) by modifying their morphology to explore other potentialities. This revisit enables her to build a universe that is both uncommon and natural, surprising and worrying at the frontier between mineral, animal and vegetal kingdoms.

Color is also a key element of her compositions. It is never left to chance and takes on a very strong connotation.

For the fifth edition of Art au Centre, Élodie Antoine displays hybrid sculptures that combine materials that are contradictory at first sight : cut, prickly, sharp glass and the softness of the white synthetic fur and the felt. These contrasted compositions that can be likened to sea anemones, floral bouquets or fragile hedgehogs erecting their spikes as a warning, arouse simultaneously attraction and repulsion. These sparkling glass sculptures are both strange and fascinating.

« This installation is the idea of an expanding sculpture that develops itself, whether in a vegetal, organic or marine form. I am interested in the concept of proliferation. The artwork can transform and evolve. I also love the contrast between the two materials. One really wants to touch but suspects that it is dangerous. Light is important, glass is a very changing material. Depending on the luminosity, these items can be very different throughout the day. »

(Élodie Antoine)