Elodie Seguin

Born in 1984, Elodie Seguin lives and works in Paris.
Her sensitive and conceptual practice encompasses painting, sculpture, and drawing, most often taking the form of site-specific installations.

Her work is written through exhibitions. Until 2022, she has imposed a principle on her practice: never to present the same piece twice and to offer a specific intervention for each exhibition invitation. This first chapter came to a close with the exhibition The missing thing, before devoting a year to color in Madrid at the Casa de Velazquez in 2023.
In a researcher's mindset, she circulates notions such as:
Potentiality, absence, unity, transparency, light, perception, subtraction, the unfinished, production, the poetics of technique.
This research involves language, synthesis, and objects that are also ideas.
 
The colors, dimensions, proportions, and shapes she uses, although minimal, evoke reality and its conventions.
Her materials are deliberately rudimentary, but their treatment produces an illusion that reveals their underestimated qualities.
Extreme attention is paid to the sensitivity of surfaces and spaces, to their presence and their borrowing.
In its contraction, painting must take place.

Elodie Seguin's work has been exhibited in institutions such as MACBA in Buenos Aires, MUDAM, the French Cultural Center in Milan, the Ricard Foundation, Espace Lafayette Anticipations, Frac Bretagne, and MUCEM.

She has been represented by the Jocelyn Wolff Gallery since 2010.

The Look Loop ring series was designed in connection with her solo exhibition of the same name, currently on display at the PEAC Museum in Freiburg, Germany, in 2025.

These rings are flat like small paintings that you wrap around your fingers. They are simple and unique, depending on the character of the wearer. It is transparency that drives this dialogue... Some are reversible, all can be opened and flattened... There are many models, yet each person quickly guesses which one suits them best. Each ring is handmade by Elodie Seguin, numbered, and sold in a bag signed by the artist.

“I only wear rings. I see them as makeup and clues. I enjoy choosing them carefully as much as I enjoy forgetting they're on my fingers. I wanted to be able to confront and observe this material as often as possible in order to reflect on it. It has become a ‘portable’ part of my exhibition.”

Elodie Seguin, December 2024