{"id":114,"name":"","email":"allansekula@gmail.com ","language_id":1,"permalink":"marie-jo-lafontaine","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":12,"url_1":"https://www.marie-jo-lafontaine.com/","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1950-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","place_of_birth":"","country_of_birth":"","place_of_residence":"","country_of_residence":"","cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"photography installation video","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Marie-Jo","lastname":"Lafontaine","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Marie-Jo Lafontaine","date_of_death":null,"cached_name_asc":"Lafontaine, Marie-Jo","stream_count_app":32,"gender":"other","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/017/606/large/thumbs_1-45-lafontaine-mjl-portrait.jpg?1370267106","poster_credits":null,"media_count":1,"items_count":3,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarie-Jo Lafontaine\u003c/strong\u003e photographs, paints and sculpts. She creates tapestries, paintings, sculptures and photo- and video installations. In her very varied oeuvre, she investigates different aspects of human identity. Without moralizing or answering the questions raised, the artist treats themes such as violence, identity, sexuality and death. Ambiguity is a recurrent characteristic in her oeuvre. Lafontaine\u0026rsquo;s protagonists occupy the middle ground between opposites like the saint and the scoundrel. Her subjects share this same dual nature. She treats, for example, the power of the attraction of death or the lust-related aspect of violence. The artist finds inspiration in philosophers and poets like Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and Federico Garc\u0026iacute;a Lorca. Her installations are often overwhelming in their monumental setup, the dramatic use of music, the fact that you literally have to step in, the near-ritual repetition of the same images\u0026hellip; Escape is impossible. What we take in usually has more the effect of amazement than enlightenment. The figures that appear in her installations carry out various acts, but the storyline and context are lacking. It remains unclear who the protagonist is, where the scene is taking place, what happened before, what happened after. There are suggestions, but nothing is made explicit.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarie-Jo Lafontaine\u003c/strong\u003e fotografeert, schildert en beeldhouwt. Ze cre\u0026euml;ert wandtapijten, schilderijen, sculpturen en foto- en video-installaties. In haar zeer verscheiden werk onderzoekt ze verschillende aspecten van de menselijke identiteit. Zonder moraliserend op te treden of de opgeroepen vragen te beantwoorden, werkt de kunstenares rond thema\u0026rsquo;s als geweld, identiteit, seksualiteit en dood. Dubbelzinnigheid is een terugkerend kenmerk in haar oeuvre. De personages van Marie-Jo Lafontaine houden het midden tussen tegengestelden als de heilige en de schurk. Haar onderwerpen hebben hetzelfde tweeledige karakter. Het gaat bijvoorbeeld om de aantrekkingskracht van de dood of over het lustaspect van geweld. De kunstenares vindt inspiratie bij filosofen en dichters als Friedrich Nietschze, Martin Heidegger, Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke en Federico Garc\u0026iacute;a Lorca. Haar installaties zijn vaak overweldigend door de monumentale opstelling, het dramatische gebruik van muziek, het feit dat je er letterlijk in moet stappen, de bijna rituele herhaling van dezelfde beelden \u0026hellip; Het is onmogelijk aan haar werk te ontsnappen. Wat er te zien is, wekt meestal eerder verbazing dan dat het kennis bijbrengt. In haar installaties verschijnen personages die een handeling uitvoeren, maar de verhaallijn en de context ontbreekt. Het blijft onduidelijk wie het personage is, waar het tafereel zich afspeelt, noch wat er zich voordien of achteraf gebeurde. Er wordt enkel gesuggereerd, niets wordt echt uitgesproken.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"","place":"Antwerp","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}},{"country":"","place":"Brussels","category":{"en":"Lives in","nl":"Leeft in","fr":"Vit à"}}]}