YLA
claire di felice
Exhibited in: Young Luxembourgish Artists, Vol.2
Born 1994 in Luxembourg.
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
EDUCATION
2014-2016 BA English Law, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
2016-2018 MA French Law, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
2019-2020 MA Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art,
London, UK
EXHIBITIONS
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// GROUP SHOWS
2022 YLA - Young Luxembourgish Artists Vol.2, Valerius Gallery Warehouse, Luxembourg


Building reflection, 2021
Passionate about art from a young age, I started experimenting with photography in 2020, borrowing my parents' cameras, an Asahi Pentax SP1000 and a Canon AE-1. What fascinates me about analogue photography is this relationship to the medium that goes beyond the simple act of pressing a shutter release. This relationship with the medium has made me want to go further and learn about old photographic techniques such as cyanotype prints that I make from my photo negatives.
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A Chair is a Chair is a Chair
« My series of cyanotypes entitled A Chair is a Chair is A Chair (a nod to Gertrude Stein) refers to the theme of the chair in art. From Vincent Van Gogh to Joseph Kosuth, the chair transforms itself from a metonymy of the human being to the conceptualisation of an object through an aesthetic reflection that goes beyond its simple representation. In my photographs, chairs appear in different urban or interior environments. Through a creative photographic process, from
analogical shooting to cyanotype transfer, I deconstruct them by giving them a new context. As for all photography, the play of presence and absence is important here. In the same way, the artisanal techniques of photography, with their element of
chance and uniqueness, inspire my artistic approach, which is nourished by the poetry of the everyday and a kind of attempt to sublimate the banal. The cyanotype process with its rendering of shades of blue (cyan) gives me this creative freedom. »
exhibited works

Bruxelles, 2022,
70 x 52 cm (Framed)

Pigment inkjet print from cyanotype on Hahnemühle

Lisboa, 2022,

70 x 52 cm (Framed)

Pigment inkjet print from cyanotype on Hahnemühle

Lido di Venezia, 2022,

70 x 52 cm (Framed)

Pigment inkjet print from cyanotype on Hahnemühle

Reflected shadows, 2021