Artist

Joëlle de La Casinière

Born in Casablanca in 1944, Joëlle de La Casinière lives and works in Brussels despite pursuing a predominantly nomadic life-style.

Over five decades, her tally of works includes the making of 400 poem-paintings, 19 hand-written and illustrated books, 9 films and 15 videos. Collectively, they cast a distinctive poetic, critical and amused eye on media and late 20th century civilisation in general.

Having already established herself as a painter in Paris, Joëlle de La Casinière abruptly turned her back on the pop-influenced work she had been producing up till then and started making films in Latin American countries. Together with writing and collage, this became her principal means for recording everyday existence.