Artwork :
Ludivine Thomas-Andersson’s artistic work combines many different media. Originally a painter and a performer, she also creates sculptures, installations, videos, sound-works … Through highly conceptual and meta-artistic works. Her artwork focuses mainly on the theme of dreams in an aesthetic of purity elegantly combining the notion of play, everyday objects, the anodyne and the grandiose. She tries to explore the limits between the rational and the irrational by invoking mythology, tales or beliefs of all kinds in her work or by exploring the world of sleep. Sometimes bordering on madness, her projects can express an extraordinary ambition, impossible, unattainable and therefore absurd. By that, she aims to question the idea of success. In particular, she started to Knit the Sea in 2015 knowing that it was a kind of waste of time, because it is completely impossible, but still keeps doing it. Because of her research where action and representation are in a permanent link, her work does not necessarily adapt to the traditional context of the exhibition space and therefore questions its format and its codes.
Biography:
Born in 1986 in the suburb of Paris, Ludivine Thomas-Andersson lives and works in Lesjöfors since 2019. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 2012 at the prestigious Art College ENSAPC in Paris after her Bachelor of Fine Arts obtained at La Sorbonne University in 2008. She moved to Sweden in 2017 and became Art History Lecturer at the Örebro art school in 2017-2018 and then moved to Lesjöfors where she devoted herself fully to the development of her art. She has done several solo shows in Sweden (Örebro 2018 and 2019, Karlstad 2021) and participated in numerous group exhibitions in several countries in Europe (France, Belgium, Malta, Germany). Laureate of a FRESH-A.I.R grant, she spent 6 months in an International Artist Residency in Berlin in 2021-2022. The National Art Council of Sweden granted her a "Work Grant" in 2022. She gave birth to her twin children in September 2022 and came back to the studio in early 2024.
