Biography
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Weaving is the art of waiting, of a slow building through the back and forth of the shuttle through the warp. The work assembles itself section by section to culminate in a final revelation.
For Elise Peroi, the craft process and its meditative aspect matter almost as much as the work born from it. Having long hesitated between painting and weaving, she found a form bringing the two together. She first paints on silk, cuts her painting into thin straps to then weave back again, playing with planes and movements. As the threads vibrate and the wood of the loom chatters, the artists lives through a mental and sensory journey. Thus, the woven work is being created in a minimal choreography to the music of repetitive sounds. This pas-de-deux executed in communion with the material also expressed itself through performances: Elise Peroi reuses her work gestures, integrating branches and marble to the threads, interweaving herself, or performing nameless rites where seeds and soil evoke the original cycle of endless new beginnings. In this way, she extends the tangible reality of the weaves.
Exhibitions
Silk
Elise Peroi
15. 09 – 28. 10. 2023
Weaving is the art of waiting, of a slow building through the back and forth of the shuttle through the warp. The work assembles itself section by section to culminate in a final revelation.
For Elise Peroi, the craft process and its meditative aspect matter almost as much as the work born from it. Having long hesitated between painting and weaving, she found a form bringing the two together. She first paints on silk, cuts her painting into thin straps to then weave back again, playing with planes and movements.
Proche du soleil
Elise Peroi
11. 09 – 10. 10. 2020
[…] Weaving takes shape in the same way soil is cultivated, through thorough tilling, furrow after furrow. Its symbolism has been at the foundations of many mythologies: most often to evoke the fragile life thread held in the fatal hand of some divinity. For Elise Peroi, the metaphorical dimension of such a practice is as important as the material creation. […]
Off site
L’ISELP, Bruxelles
Inspire
Participation : Elise Peroi
18. 09 – 28. 11. 2020
What other temporalities can artworks offer us? The works presented in this exhibition, which come from an inspiration unique to the artists, enable us to appreciate the passing of time in its proper light and to fully grasp its intensity [excerpt from iselp.be].
La Maison des Arts, Bruxelles
Fil
Participation : Elise Peroi
20. 02 – 25. 04. 2020
The Maison des Arts is a place of history and memory, initially used by drapers. The thread theme offers a subtle dialogue with the listed decorations of the place, its tapestries and old fabrics. Each of the nine invited artists works with thread/rope/textile in a unique way: installation, lace, weaving, tapestry, embroidery, video… Erwan Mahéo and Elise Peroi have been invited to present a work created especially for the site. [Extract from text on the site of La Maison des Arts]
