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Sandrine Ilouquet

Sandrine ilouquet creates unassuming drawings, site-specific installations and flash animations that are simultaneously playful and evocative, hinting of wonder and wounds. Her practice embraces these contradictory impulses, culling images and references from mass media, her personal narrative, collective memory and litterature. Her images are at once familiar and unsettling- disjunctured, surprising, decontextualized. The presentation of her drawings and animations within complete installations point at the complexities of memory and representation, desire and lack, jouissance and despair.
Referring to her body of work, ilouquet writes, « Each piece is a tentative,….combination of the contradictory feelings with animate me, particularly violence and sweetness. Violence and sweetness, ambivalence and liminality are the heart of the artist’s practice. Trauma and kitsch, play and pathos are not polar binaries for Ilouquet, they inform and transform each.

Sandrine Ilouquet is born 1975 in Montpellier, France.
She lives and works in Ho Chi Min city, Vietnam.

Ècole d’art et de recherché, Villa Arson, Nice, France
1993-99 Diplôme National Supérieur d´Expression Plastique
1997-98 University of Fine Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2006 Welcome Home, itinerant exhibition organized by Ipso Facto
Gallery, private residence, Nantes, France
2005 «Troi oi!» , Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
«Bleu presque transparent», Galerie Cortex Athletico,
Bordeaux, France
«Chambre d’amis», private residence, Bordeaux, France
Sandrine Llouquet, Galerie numérique, FNAC Bordeaux,
France
2003 «Livre n°12», La Quincallerie, Bordeaux, France
2002 «Kiki restaurant», Chez Chalana, Bordeaux, France
2000 «Un thé chez les fous», No Beach itinerant exhibition,
Bordeaux, France