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. 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.
Hybrid project (film, website and NFTs)
EMI is the optimal performance tool. Her sublime productivity is seemingly unbound by basic human needs.
EMI is a virtual influencer. EMI eats, EMI secretes, EMI generates.
Embodying the concept of beauty and perfection, EMI is an adored virtual influencer until the day doubt creeps in. What if the trend was to look less and less like a human being?
CGI, AI image generators, a program created to automate video processing, but also traditional techniques such as live shooting or FX make-up, EMI explores different methods in an atmosphere of viral vlogs and colorful selfies.
