Born in Nantes, France in 1990, Elise Peroi lives and works in Brussels. Since her thesis “Weaving the Landscape”,  at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Elise Peroi has been inspired by nature in all its forms. Her installation structures are both paintings and weavings, or even perhaps sculptures....

For Elise Peroi, the working process and its meditative dimension count almost as much as the resulting work. The artist who has long hesitated between painting and weaving has found a form that combines the two. She first paints on silk, then cuts her paint into fine woollens, which she then reweaves, playing with planes and shifts. As the threads vibrate and the wood of the loom rattles, the artist experiences a mental and sensitive journey.

A minimal choreography against a backdrop of repetitive sounds accompanies the creation of the woven work. This pas de deux in communion with the material also translates into performances: Elise Peroi resumes her working gestures, integrating branches and marbles into the threads, interweaving herself or performing nameless rites where seeds and earth recall the original cycle of eternal recommencement. The tangible reality of weaving is thus prolonged.

Whether it being in her architectural installations in which load-bearing constructions rise, or more recently through her garden plans placed on the ground like carpets concurrently decomposed and recomposed of textile pieces and natural materials, Elise Peroi continues to explore the art of weaving. A body of work, or should we say a way of seeing, that summons the full and the empty always in close relation with the elements that surround us; the vegetal of course, the mineral, the shadow and the light to the air that we breathe.

In her work, everything begins with painting an imagination linked to the living that she comes to draw on the surface of the silk, a fantastic world populated by plants and strange animals which already seem to be in motion. The canvas will then be lacerated to be inserted, fragment after fragment, to constitute an unusual chain that Elise Peroi likes to double on her loom, as she says to create depth and let the air pass. This notable breath transcends her work once the weaves are hung or stretched on the wooden structures, like nature in motion, a suspended landscape floating beyond the horizon of our eyes.