Marie-Jo Lafontaine
Marie-Jo Lafontaine (born November 17, 1950) is a sculptor and video artist from Antwerp (Anvers), Belgium.[1][2][3] She now lives and works as a Professor of Media Arts at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Brussels, Belgium.[4][5][6]
Lafontaine studied from 1975 to 1979 at l'École nationale supérieure d'architecture et des arts visuels.[7]
Lafontaine has worked in many media including "tapestries" in which she weaves black-dyed wool into linear patterns; sculptural work using plaster, concrete, and lead; and photography. In 1980, Lafontaine started using video in her sculptures and has created installations and environments utilizing video.[8][9]
She was awarded the Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge in 1977;[10] in 1986 she was awarded a FIACRE grant from the French Ministry of Culture,[11] and in 1996 she won the European Photography Award.[12][13]
Critic Konstanze Thümmel describes the dominating themes her post-1980s video work as "association between Eros and Thanatos, passion and reason," and it Lafontaine explores these "...through powerful images of people and animals in extreme situations."[14][11]
Key Works
Lafontaine is best known for her work Les larmes d'acier (1986).[15][16]
References
- ^ Blakey, Richard (1990). "'Marie-Jo Lafontaine' and Those Who Would Seek to Know, to Fix and to Hold That Which Is Not". Third Text. 4 (12): 41–58. doi:10.1080/09528829008576277 – via JSTOR.
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