Flavie Audi
Flavie Audi, born in Paris, France, is a French-Lebanese artist currently based in London. Her practice finds its point of departure within the manipulation of glass. Omnipresent in nearly all contemporary forms of digital devices, glass becomes a symbol of the tension between the realms of the tangible and the digital, as well as a facilitator of the disappearance of physical objects. Glass plays a crucial part, for Audi, in contemplating a speculative utopian future world where humans create cosmic fragments and new types of landscape formations. Using the physical properties of glass, Audi highlights the duality between real and virtual worlds.
“My sculptures are the exploration of the alchemical transformation of elements, of the mythical borderline between material and spiritual, between visible and invisible”
In an era of technological innovation that has seen the creation of flawless, synthetic diamonds, undetectable by man or machine, Audi questions how we experience the real. Audi obtained an Master of Arts in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Arts in London, after graduating from the Architectural Association in 2010. Her architectural background continues to inform her glass practice today, notably in her glass brick series whereby a basic building block, commonly produced in inexpensive clay, is transformed into a sculpture from glass, a costly material which is difficult to manipulate.
