POST-PARTUM

Post-partum explores episodes of the artist’s personal experience in connection to childbirth and post-partum depression. It evokes physical and emotional struggles, and a subsequent ongoing journey towards healing. Reflecting on a time of transition and vulnerability, it also allows for strength, recovery and acceptance to shine through. As a wall installation, the three-dimensional ceramic work is approached as a mappa mundi – a schematic, illustrated and subjective map which includes fragments of memories, feelings and reflections destined to outline the artist’s ‘known world’ and suggest possible ways of navigating through it.

Viewers are invited to use their smartphones or tablets to scan a two-dimensional representation of the installation in order to uncover insights and intimate stories which act as extensions of the wall-based ceramic pieces. This interactive component invites viewers to delve deeper into the narrative; enriching the dialogue on a subject largely considered taboo.

ÉLODIE ALEXANDRE is a ceramicist and illustrator based in Himachal Pradesh, India. Originally from France, she studied at the Cardiff School of Art & Design in Wales. She holds a Ceramics BA and MA from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. Her degree show installation was chosen for a Rising Stars Award in London. Her work was selected for the 2011 British Ceramics Biennial and the 2015 Biennial of Ceramics in Belgium. She was artist-in-residence at the Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale. Recently, Élodie has started exploring feminist concerns, where she brings the narrative dimension into her ceramic work.

www.elolalalexandre.com