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Manufactured by Elissa Lacoste
France, 2022

Upcycled styrofoam, textile, wood, soft foam, silicone,

Measurements
110 cm diameter x 27 cm
43.4 in x 10.6 in

Edition
Unique piece

Exhibition
Infinito Viviente, 9th November 2022 - 14th February 2023, Side Gallery, Barcelona.
Side Gallery’s first solo exhibition with the French designer Elissa Lacoste, Infinito Viviente took its title from Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and alludes the vibrant atmosphere of a speculative and immersive underwater landscape that characterised Elissa’s collection. This new body of over 21 functional sculptures for her first solo show unfolds like an expanding never before seen seascape of floating, hovering, and grounded elements in an inviting game of pareidolia. Lacoste’s work considers the gathering of materials and their assemblage and interplay as a celebratory act of defying prediction and conjuring mutating synthetic topographies and rebellious biomes within contemporary boundaries. Just as Jules Verne describes the sea, ‘you feel life stirring on all sides, Elissa’s collection evokes the diversity that was or could be, with materials flowing free from tyranny.

Biography
Elissa Lacoste is a french designer born in 1994 who graduated in 2018 from Design Academy Eindhoven, MA Contextual Design.
Hands-on and instinctive, her work ensues from her quest for the wild, the inexplicable and the sensorial in the contemporary. Her interest in allowing matter to show its vibrancy leads her to unexpected results presenting an unconventional beauty. Textures and material otherness in objects reflect upon our relationship to our physical environment, be it anthropogenic or natural


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Elissa Lacoste (b. 1994, France) is an experimental designer who lives and works in Burgundy, France. She studied at Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Design Saint-Etienne and Latvian Art Academy in Riga. She obtained her MA at Design Academy Eindhoven in 2018 in the Netherlands.

Hands-on and instinctive, her work stems from her quest for the wild, the inexplicable and the sensorial within contemporary boundaries. Unconventionally textured and vibrant, her sculptural pieces linger between the real and the surreal while maintaining a hint of functionality. In her work, she evokes an otherness to reflect upon our relationship to our physical environment, be it anthropogenic or natural.

Her organic forms often provoke a cognitive dissonance like her monolithic stone-like silicone pieces.
Fascinated by material abilities and not bounded to a specific material, she looks into various techniques but prefers to experiment intuitively, without resorting to traditional craft knowledge as a first step.

In this way she favors serendipity and encounters surprising results that she develops into her own techniques and methods of shaping matter and creating objects.

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