«  In the topic of passport photos, the human face is transformed into an emblem of emotionless existence within a standardized frame. The requirement for a neutral expression demands the suppression of any hint of individuality or feeling, rendering the passport photo canvas an uncanny landscape where personal expression is supposed to be muted. The face becomes a symbol of bureaucratic conformity, stripped of its nuances and complexities. » 

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Illustrations for a cultural journal Rekto:Verso, Belgium Spring 2024

PASSPORT PHOTO



Both artists have a unique approach to exploring and transforming materials. Charlotte uses fabric and threads as a medium for storytelling, while João transforms materials he finds into new realities. They breathe new life and meaning into the materials they work with, introducing new significance that transcends their typical properties and original purpose. By adding or removing layers and altering and shaping the texture, the artists achieve depth in their works.                                                                                                                                      

Pictures by Silvia Cappellari.
  

A duo show with João Freitas, curated by Murmur, at firma Brussels (BE), Autumn 2023

SCULPTING SURFACES

Two banners made of cotton, 230x180cm, screenprinting, embroidery and sewing, with badges made of tin. These banners are inspired by medieval badges found in Ypres and about their local history. 

"I try to imagine how your texture felt like", Ypres (BE), Autumn 2023

OUR LADY OF THUYNE & MAGRIET'S PROTECTION

3 banners inspired by Neuchatel's landscape, dimension variable, Pictures by Thalles Piaget

Panart, Neuchâtel (CH), Spring 2022

EPHEMERA

A 5 x 8 meters banner. For this installation, textile becomes a central element of the historical architecture of Kunsthal Gent. The mural hanging redefines the space by recomposing its chronology. "Keepsake" ties in with Kunsthal Gent's Endless Exhibition, in which works do not have a definitive place but can be moved or adapted in the future. The installation aims at involving inside and outside of the building, as a banner for the ever-changing future of Kunsthal Gent. Pictures by Michiel De Cleene

Kunsthal Gent, Ghent (BE), ongoing project since 2019

KEEPSAKE

Belgium, Switzerland 2013-2023

SOME SELECTED PROJECTS

2 metal engravings, 15x20cm. A proposition made by La Placette. Compactus n° 13 together with Jacques Duboux, Simon Paccaud and Sebastián Dávila. 
Pictures by Jacques Duboux

Etat des lieux, Lausanne (CH), Summer 2022

CHAMPION SEGWAY & CHAMPIONNE ELIANE

with Genêt Mayor, Pictures by Julien Gremaud

Pano, Vevey (CH), Spring 2021

L'ENNUI REGNAIT AU DEHORS

This diptych, hand-woven from cotton, wool and silk threads, depicts two statues planted in an imaginary setting. Nailed to their pedestals, they seem to belong to no age, as if abandoned. Yet they are anything but inert. Like two idols, referring to the female body as an object exposed to the gaze, they come to life in a rumbling, disquieting landscape, but with vibrant colors that incite dreamlike adventure. They occupy a space all their own, under the midday and sunset sun. In a symbolic gesture of self-palpation, these two sculptures do more than recall the strict medical gesture of prevention and screening: they invite us on a journey. They also offer a gateway to self-exploration, to the knowledge - and reappropriation - of one's own body. Their swaying arms, swaying in a contrast of colors, encourage us to look inward, sometimes uncertainly. Touching, palpating, kneading, smelling and feeling to create, recreate, blossom and enjoy life. (A.S.) Pictures by Nicolas Lieber

Des Seins à Dessein, collective show, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne (CH), Autumn 2020

BELLE DE JOUR ET DE NUIT

Part of "Can We Talk In Private?", an exhibition initiated by Tjobo Kho as the third in a serie of exhibitions and events curated by De Cleene De Cleene that centre around parking lot. Pictures: Michiel De Cleene

019, Ghent (BE), Autumn 2019

GONE FISHING

In a single physical place, this exhibition gathers spaces and events that by themselves would seem discordant, forming a dematerialized territory where escaping and inhabiting become permeable notions. A fragile area, where confusion is always possible, from where arises a fraction of a sensitive eagerness that allows to reveal the poetic strength of objects. By superposing our beliefs, by superposing the coincidences that we have noticed before, we want to recreate desire for contemplation.
In order to escape of the temptation of a perpetual linear script, we are seeking to set a temporary order of things and to ceaselessly reexamine the way in which they interlink. L’Âge de Roseau is an invitation to roam the space of otherness, a place where imagination does not defy reality, a place where it is not its contrary or its opponent. Dream is a different reality: fertile and melancholic, it is the accomplice of all our memories. Pictures by Fabien Silvestre Suzor

in collaboration with Hugo Ruyant and Juliet Merie, Sagacity, Brussels (BE), Spring 2019

L'AGE DE ROSEAU

Edited by Grafische Cel. Graphic Design: Hugo Roger, 80 pages, 21 × 12 cm, paperback, English

Ghent (BE), Autumn 2018

CREATURES IN REALITY (book)

"Je lui ai accordé plus d'attention qu'à un porte-parapluie" Installation, pictures: Julien Gremaud

La Placette, Lausanne (CH), Spring 2018

This project is the result of a shared fascination with covering and the idea of protection. How do we choose the objects we want to keep safe? Here, forms that are usually disgraced or ignored are the object of our particular attention. Shapes placed in greenhouses to create a favorable environment, out of season. Like an isolated, suspended space. Pictures: Julien Gremaud

In collaboration with Juliet Merie, at Indiana, Vevey (CH), Spring 2018

GARDMAN

Museum of Moving Practice, 019, Pictures: Michiel De Cleene, Tom De Visscher 

LUCA School of Arts, Gent (BE), 2017

HERE NOT HERE

in collaboration with Vianney Fivel, Laure Marville, Marta Margnetti et Arnaud Wohlhauser

Lausanne (CH), Winter 2018

URGENT PARADISE RESIDENCY

Tapestry made of silk, cotton, wool and linen. 70x100cm each. Pictures: Myriam Ziehli

Charlotte Stuby