Elke Andreas Boon(Ghent,
Belgium) is a visual artist and musician. In her visual oeuvre she uses various
media. By assembling her photos,
drawings, videos, and sculptures, she creates an environment where
hyper-individualistic feelings are sublimated into a sense of ephemeral beauty.
Through these different media same materials and topics are used and reused,
turned, questioned, as a personal language.
The base of
Boon’s work is formed by her innate fascination with people, their connections,
their emotions and uncertainties. Tensions created in answering to or escaping
from patterns of social expectations, which revolve around age, beauty or
gender always recur in Boon’s work. As an artist, her power lies in locating difficult to define human
sensitivities, laying them bare, and raising them to a level of aesthetic
awareness.
After an
initially beautiful, often sensual impression of her creations, another reality
can soon surface, confronting the spectator with an indeterminate doubt about
human fate.
The work provokes, plays and challenges, seduces and
deceives. Humor, duality and tension are inherent in the work.
Her work
couples a poetic and escapist imagination with a raw vision on our human
condition. Her work thus bears witness to a very personal sensibility,
lightness and nimbleness, sometimes brutally direct, sometimes quietly
beautiful.
It is not the illustration of an idea, but the
result of multiple and diverse impulses that form an ambiguous whole.
For Elke
Andreas Boon, artistry is a radical choice for freedom, an attempt to go beyond
the tethering of social structures. Thanks to her imagination and rebellious
attitude towards life, she succeeds in challenging rusted patterns, generating
new insights on what it is to be human.
The artist exhibits at home and abroad and her work is
included in various private and public art collections (S.M.A.K.Ghent, FOMU
Antwerp, MDD Deurle, ...)
As a musician, the artist writes, composes and performs
under the pseudonym Mati Le Dee. She is also part of the alternative electronic
pop duo G A U S S.
