ABOUT
Loïs Soleil’s cyber-performance, titled "digital diary," involves the artist interacting with various browser tabs like a DJ or web jockey, using her computer's tools to create an introduction to her artistic practice. The artist blends various elements such as an “un-creative writing” compilation of Tinder bios, lip-syncing, live writing, self-portraits, GIFs, poetry, "a choir of selves” and other internet performances.
Through digital art, performance, installation, poetry and sound, Loïs Soleil’s artistic practice aims to bridge the emotional and the political by posing intersectional cyber/techno-feminist questions. Loïs Soleil’s work confronts the everyday sexist structures of the web, its biais algorithms, codes, culture and languages. It explores the relationships between vulnerability, pop culture, voyeurism and desire; often employing self-portraits, internet performances, and poetry to illustrate a female gaze through which sexuality, love, vulnerability and empowerment can be expressed. From the leitmotif of the bedroom, to relationships, everyday rituals and post-dentity writing, the artist’s work is autobiographically direct, raw and emotionally vulnerable in its hyper intimacy. For Loïs Soleil, the personal is political, the private is political.
Currently living in Brussels, Loïs Soleil is a Franco-Scottish artist who has studied Fine art internationally: at Leeds University, Ensba Lyon and the École de recherche graphique (erg). Her work has been presented at a number cultural events and institutions such as Cultuurcentrum Grimbergen, VIDEOFORMES, n0dine, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles | Paris, (Pas si) fragile at Studio Thor, Marres Huis voor Hedendaagse Cultuur, Domestic by Word of Warning, IKLECTIK, Recyclart, Homographia, Biennale of Liège (Mutantx) etc.
CREDITS
Photos by Camille Poitevin and Benjamin Huynh
