Material: Up-cycled aluminium and steel, acrylic gypsum, fibreglass, mineral filers, PU foam, silicone, pigments.
Dimensions: W 215 x D 75x H 50 cm
Weight: 67 kg
Slight variations and imperfections may apply due to a handmade production process. At OWN, we stand by these artistic choices and do not accept returns related to these intentional imperfections such as irregularities in stone or ceramics, patina on metal surfaces, wood cracking and more.
Features
Design Year: 2024
Handmade in France
Images by Elissa Lacoste
Edition
One-of-a-kind
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8 weeks
Estimated Lead Time
8 weeks
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The series Epimorph are called after a geological phenomenon in which a mineral’s shape has been formed by its environment, usually as a coating over an original mineral.
The original shapes here consists in cast aluminium and steel structures that are coated in numerous layers of acrylic gypsum and pigments to transform them into surreal yet domestic concretions.
About the artist
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.
