Marie-Jo Lafontaine

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Marie-Jo Lafontaine is a contemporary conceptual artist born in Belgium. She is best known for her sculpting and videos, but she also works with textiles, tapestry, video installations, still photography. Some notable works by Marie-Jo Lafontaine include Dance the World! (2008) which is a lyrical film documenting dancers performing Flamenco and Tango;

Dance The World 1

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Steel Tears (1987) which is a video sculpture; or Babylon Babies, which is a series of portrait photographs of teenagers in large format on monochromatic backgrounds, published in book format. Marie-Jo Lafontaine focuses her works on human existence in all its varied forms. Some have identified her photography as being documentary in style. Perhaps existential in theme, her compositions capture the beauty or intrigue of the world around us, or bring us to see people completely without contextual references which might sway our opinions in one way or another. Her work encourages seeing the world differently than might be expected, leading us to thoughtfully consider her created environments or experience natural images with new eyes. In addition, Marie-Jo Lafontaine’s books have been Read More

Belgium / female artist / New Media Art / Body Art / Conceptual art

ARTWORKS BY Marie-Jo Lafontaine

Marie-Jo Lafontaine

Dance The World 2, 2010

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Marie-Jo Lafontaine

Dance The World 1, 2010

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Pigment Print

EUR 250

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Genre encompassing all artworks created through the technologies of the new media including computer graphics, digital art, virtual art, internet art, computer animation, video games, 3D printing and computer robotics. Concerns under new media are mostly derived from mas media, telecommunications and the modes of digital electronic for delivering the works include practices that range from installation to performance, virtual to conceptual art.

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