Ethel Lilienfeld
Born in France in 1995 and based in Brussels, Ethel Lilienfeld’s work examines the growing impact of the virtual body on reality and everyday life. She creates uncanny images that exacerbate the tension between fantasy and madness. Ethel Lilienfeld’s work explores issues of social norms, aesthetic standards and concepts of identity and gender.
About Ethel Lilienfeld
The body plays an important role in most of the artist’s proposals. By combining technology with traditional filmmaking techniques, Ethel crafts singular visual environments. Although she uses photography, video installation and film, her works are nonetheless related to sculpture, and the relationship with space is crucial in her oeuvre. In her videos, Ethel Lilienfeld works with actors, sets and objects, sometimes drawing on fiction, sometimes on reality.
After completing a master’s degree in visual arts at La Cambre (Brussels) in 2020, Ethel Lilienfeld obtained a post-graduate degree at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in 2023. She has won a number of awards: Villa Albertine Grant / Étant Donnés Contemporary Art (2023); PrixFintroPrijs / Audience award and second jury prize (BE, 2023); Production grant of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (BE, 2022); Audience award, Brussels Videonline Festival #2 at LA CENTRALE (BE, 2021); Cocof Award (French Community Commission) at Médiatine (BE, 2021); Prix des Amis de La Cambre (BE, 2020).
