Elise Morin
Elise Morin’s artistic practice draws on a variety of media, from video art to large-scale installations. Much of her work offers a reassessment of landscape as a genre in contemporary art, while also exploring the environmental issues and economic displacement of objects. Morin often borrows details from the natural environment, focusing on the ‘life cycle’ of an artwork and how its making and composition can place a material burden on the ecosystem. Her art has an affiliation with Minimalism through its accumulation of recycled materials and repetition. Morin has exhibited at the Jeu de Paume and the Centquatre in Paris, the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and The Hague’s City Hall. She studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Central Saint Martins College in London, as well as the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts.
Reprising her Peninsula Paris 2019 installation, Morin’s large-scale sculpture “SOLI” has been expanded with additional materials for the 2024 edition of Art in Resonance. SOLI translates to the plural of music and the sun, reflecting Morin’s interest in the ephemeral properties of light and sound. SOLI allowed Morin to expand her practice by putting discarded CDs through an industrial process of destruction with five levels of pulverisation according to the confidentiality of their content. This, in turn, creates a skin for her sculpture that makes destruction and protection intimately inter-related concepts. From afar, the glittering, dune-like form seems comprised of precious materials evocative of the great palaces of her home country, while a closer inspection reveals a commentary on sustainability and the material burden of objects.