Elvire Soyez works in different media, with a focus on sculpture and print.
Her work centres on the house, the home, and its attributes and memories, as well as on “a desire for adventure” which implies the notion of liberty and its opposite, hindrance to liberty.
Her artistic practice takes place in installations, with an intention of impressing the works on our memory like images or appearances that come together into a larger narrative.
Inspired by an interest in vernacular junk, she redeploys found objects in different ways by using them or reinvesting their forms and motifs.
By repeating motifs (television, gun, casserole…) of an interrupted, existent, fragmented domesticity, Elvire Soyez attempts to exploit the full effect value of the motif in order to escape the usual interpretation, or rather go beyond it.
With a low key characteristic combined with sensuous, rough and tactile qualities, her work is placed in contrast to hard industrial, manufactured surfaces and far removed from the aesthetics of minimalism.