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 otherworldly landscape formations. Using the physical properties of glass, Audi highlights the duality between real and virtual worlds. 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, transforming a mundane object and charging them with wonder as if life is brewing inside them. The bricks, hovering between digital screen and celestial body, makes visible the complex mysterious web of invisible forces overlaying our reality, highlighting the concrescence between physical and immaterial worlds. One of the most mundane building material is transformed into a celestial mass, resembling the materiality of digital screens. Here bricks are not structural but contemplative, inviting the mind to expand in the cosmological infinite.
