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PRESS RELEASE
"Pensées
sauvages et bricolage",
Elise Ottaviano (Belgium)
In
her work, Elise Ottaviano (°1974 Belgium) Lives & Works in
France, tries to create a vision on everyday reality and her personal experience
with it - a reality which is always in motion, contradicting itself
endlessly. The
artist feels amazed by the fascinating micro- and macrocosm that,
unfortunately, has had its share of humanitarian crises and wars. The
spectator is confronted with the artist’s sorrow as well as with the
pleasure and happiness with which she shapes her ideas. Throughout
her work Elise wages war against the increasing level of control that
authorities, corrupted by a Big Brother mentality, exert upon their
subjects. A level of control that, according to her, limits our freedom of
movement, which – in its turn – will lead to a degradation of humankind. Her
installations and drawings often clash with all contemporary conceptions of
aestheticism and could even be considered indecent in a formal way. It seems
as if the entirety of her work has grown in all its complexity, just as in
our micro- and macrocosm. In that respect, a question like “What is good,
better or best?” has become entirely obsolete. The
artist revolts against any kind of controlled art and seeks her salvation in
the anti-artistic movement, which becomes a token of her revolution and her
freedom.
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