Anita explore le passage de la présence à l’absence. Elle questionne l’impact du moment présent et de la localité sur le vivant et ses liaisons inexorables dans le tissu émergent du réel.
À travers la peinture, l’installation ou la performance, elle expérimente un retour à la perception permettant de se ré-ancrer de manière consciente dans le quotidien et de repenser nos modes d’existence grâce à un dialogue autre.
- Bruxelles, 2020
Rooted in the moment, the materiality and physicality of things, borrowing forms and materials from everyday life, the work of Anita De Laforêt reveals the beauty in the simplicity of things. Her work, oftentimes spontaneous, is energetically painted and gestural on large canvases. Chance plays a big role in Anita’s work, where form, space, colour, and texture are discovered along the process rather than being an intended result. Performance- or concept based, her art is free from rigid formal constraints and the process prevails over the outcome.
Her work is subtle, non-invasive, often minimalistic and appears like a reminiscence of long-lost values, such as sobriety, moderation and humility. Rather than creating in a feeling of abundance and profusion, Anita works while subtracting, abstracting, trying to find the essence of things.
Like fragments, traces, prints left in a space of personal symbolism, her work narrates stories. The one of a moment, a feeling, a thought. The one of humanity, time and space.
Anita borrows from nature what she has to offer without leaving a trace. Magmas of matter, powder, leaves, textures, liquids, the textural richness, often coming from the use and mixture of natural, poor, raw materials, is exploring the transformative qualities of matter. Working in harmony with nature, Anita evokes the effects of the current way of life and how it tends to destroy experiences of locality and memory as it pushes ever forwards into the loss of personality, momentum and truthfulness.
Her work reminds us of our roots in an attempt to recreate a unity between man and nature. Beauty in all its simplicity, pure, incorrupt, innocent.
- Lena Van Den Kerchove, 2017
Anita De Laforêt
visual artist
born in Luxembourg
lives in Brussels, Belgium
Member of the artist collective DEUX FEMMES with Malsy Klasen.
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES Brussels, Belgium
Master in Contemporary Art History 2024
ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DES ARTS VISUELS - LA CAMBRE Brussels, Belgium
Research Master of Visual Arts 2021
ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DES ARTS VISUELS - LA CAMBRE Brussels, Belgium
Teaching Master of Visual Arts (Agrégation) 2020
ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DES ARTS VISUELS – LA CAMBRE Brussels, Belgium
Bachelor of Visual Arts 2017
ÉCOLE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Upgrade in Visual Arts 2010 - 2014
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Ouvrir les yeux et voir les mains ouvertes – Boris Lehman, Régina Guimarães & Guests, Antre-Peaux, Bourges, France
Intermédiaire, La boutique culturelle, Bruxelles, Belgium
Interactions, La boutique culturelle, Bruxelles, Belgium
2022 Le chant des sirènes, Curation Lola Meotti, CAL, Charleroi, Belgium
Place aux artistes, Théâtre de Liège, Liège, Belgium
2020 It Never Ends - John M Armleder & Guests, Écho/Ecart, KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
Pas Si Fragile, Next Performance Art Generation, Curation Antoine Pickles, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France
PHASE, Curation Medusa Gallery, Rue St. Lambert 23, Laeken, Brussels, Belgium
Écholocation, Curation Michel François, Hôtel Van de Velde, 29 Av. F. Roosevelt, Brussels, Belgium
Pas Si Fragile, The Next Performance Art Generation, Curation Antoine Pickles, Studio Thor, Brussels, Belgium
Graduation Show, Curation Lola Meotti, Espace Vanderborght, Rue de l'Ecuyer 50, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Festival Trouble #10 [redux], Curation Antoine Pickles, Studio Thor, Brussels, Belgium
All in one, KANAL Centre Pompidou, Curation Lola Meotti, Quai des Péniches, Brussels, Belgium
Jet Lag #2, Curator Boris Dambly, Bukta Paktop, Rue Simonis 20, Brussels, Belgium
Crush Test, Curation Xavier Noiret-Thomé, Hôtel Van de Velde, 29 Av. F. Roosevelt, Brussels, Belgium
X-Tension : Fragile !, Curation Antoine Pickles, Avenue Louise 425, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Observer with Emma Pollet, Curation Yuna Mathieu-Chovet, Plagiarama, Galerie Rivoli, Brussels, Belgium
L'ombre du Zèbre n'a pas de rayures, Espace Vanderborght, Rue de l'Ecuyer 50, Brussels, Belgium
Mail Art International: Weather Change, Cairo, Egypt
Mail Art International: Weather Change, Boulevard Saucy 16, Liège, Belgium
Outside [now] < > Instant Spacing, Les Brasseurs Art Contemporain, Rue du Pont 26-28, Liège, Belgium
2017 PER FOR MANCES : Tension < > Fragile, Curation A. Pickles, La Raffinerie, rue de Manchester 21, Brussels, Belgium
Landscapist of sounds, Curation Raymond Delepierre, Abbaye de la Cambre 21, Brussels, Belgium
Paint Break, Curation Olivier Drouot, La Cambre, Avenue Louise 427, Brussels, Belgium
36 nuances de vert, Curation Olivier Drouot, Abbaye de la Cambre 14, Brussels, Belgium
RESIDENCIES
CIFAS / Centre international en formation des arts du spectacle Brussels, Belgium
CONSTELLATIONS Co-learning project 2022
Espace croisé - Centre d'art contemporain Lille, France
with Malsy Klasen - collective DEUX FEMMES 2022
Le Corridor Liège, Belgium
Crescendo#2 with Malsy Klasen - collective DEUX FEMMES 2022
KANAL Centre Pompidou Brussels, Belgium
Écho/Ecart project with the artist group DIX 2020
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
MUS-E BELGIUM Brussels, Belgium
Coordinator of French-speaking activities for the artistic non-profit organization 2023-2025
EMOCIONARTE - ERASMUS+ Brussels, Belgium
Transnational Meeting in Belguim - working with disabled people in the arts 2024
EMOCIONARTE - ERASMUS+ Klostereberbach, Germany
Transnational Meeting in Germany - working with disabled people in the arts 2024
EDI Global Forum, Fondazione Morra Greco Naples, Italy Education and Integration Global Forum fellowship program 2022
ISELP - ARTS PLASTIQUES & INSTITUT ST. JOSEPH ETTERBEEK Brussels, Belgium Art Teacher - Projet Passerelle 2020
ATHÉNÉE ROYAL DE RIXENSART Rixensart, Belgium
Art Teacher 2020
HALLES DE SCHAERBEEK Brussels, Belgium
Assistant of artist Maksaens Denis 2017
CENTER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AM KLOUSCHTER Mondorf-Les-Bains, Luxembourg
Art adviser 2016 - 2017
WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOP - MUS-E Artist Day Brussels, Belgium
About Intercreation - ECAM 2024
WORKSHOP - MUS-E Artist Day Brussels, Belgium
Intercreation outside education - ECAM 2024
WORKSHOP with Graziele Sena Da Silva Liège, Belgium
Performance Création "The Feast" - La fabrique des rêves - Rêvons ASBL 2023
WORKSHOPS with Antoine PICKLES, Jacques ANDRE, Marta BOSOWSKA Brussels, Belgium
POURBAIX Robin, Patricia MARTIN, Eve BONNEAU, Ophélie MAC, 2018 Gaëtan RUSQUET, Boris DAMBLY
CASO Performance La Cambre at Avenue Louise 425 & 27/29 Av. F. Roosevelt
WORKSHOPS with Antoine PICKLES, Jacques ANDRE, Marta BOSOWSKA Brussels, Belgium
POURBAIX Robin, Patricia MARTIN, Eve BONNEAU, Ophélie MAC, 2018 Gaëtan RUSQUET, Boris DAMBLY
CASO Performance La Cambre at Avenue Louise 425 & 27/29 Av. F. Roosevelt
INTERNSHIP with Eve BONNEAU Brussels, Belgium
Somatic symbolic experiences. Creation of a rite at Camping Town Studio 2018
WORKSHOPS with Jonathan DE WINTER, Claude CATTELAIN, Sylvie COËLLIER, Liège, Belgium
Philippe VAN CAUTERN, Romain GANDOLPHE, André FORTINO, Capsule BIOHARDCORE 2018
Outside [now] - workshop master classes at Les Brasseurs
WORKSHOP with Eve BONNEAU Brussels, Belgium
From body awareness to the performative language at Espace Mutin 2018
WORKSHOPS with Martine VIALE, Antoni KARWOWSKI, Aye KO, Ilka THEURICH, Brussels, Belgium
Monika KLINGER, X/TNT, Lucille KALMEL, Antoine PICKLES, Patricia MARTIN 2017
Actus V & CASO Performance La Cambre at MAAC, La Bellone, la Raffinerie & Studio Thor
INTERNSHIP in BOOK BINDING and DESIGN Brussels, Belgium
La Cambre ENSAV 2017
INTERNSHIP in PHOTOGRAPHY Brussels, Belgium
La Cambre ENSAV 2016