"Hop Hop Hope" by Elisa Fantozzi From 08 september to saturday 08 october 2011 For her first personal exhibition in Bruxelles at Lot 10 Gallery, Elisa presents « HOP HOP HOPE », a series of works produced between 2008 and 2011.

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After a few years of theatrical practice, self-made artist Elisa Fantozzi has launched herself as a visual artist. Before establishing her workshop in Sète where she lives today, she travelled between New York and the south of France. She can currently be found in Georgia where she is working on a monumental sculpture project in the touristic port of Batumi. Navigating between theatre and visual art, Elisa puts herself onstage in a work mixing the intimate and the social. She denounces the excesses of a consumerist society, which erects a dogma of the all-consumable and all-disposable, going as far as using her own effigy as a derivative product. As her double wanders in the middle of the installation, visual works become physical and the public becomes their accomplice. Elisa pushes both her limits and ours, those of incomprehension and of intolerance, of doubt and vagueness in a continual coming and going between objects and bodies. The images emerge poetic and playful, nourished by the content of a very unique universe, which still leaves room for the variations of our own imagination. Elisa Fantozzi is a troublemaker who chooses to provoke dreams and smiles to better console us from chronic gloom, a free electron who never ceases to astound us and to needle us in order to extract us from prevailing indifference.

“If I opt for lightness, it is to glide more easily, with gravity out the window, to achieve a soft landing in the world of illusion. And in this I collect and construct, diverting signs, styles, beliefs and common grounds. In this revisited world, I feature a character who resembles me, a reified double, an image of my dreams, of my fantasies and nightmares...For if I make artistic territories my playground, it is to better escape and twirl from sobriety to excess, from the profusion of colours to monochrome, from chatter to silence...”