Elise Corpataux
Life isn't good it's excellent
Elise Corpataux, Untitled, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
In an expressive rendering of semi-conscious drift, Elise Corpataux’s (*1994, Fribourg) practice has developed around sentimental imagery. With their romantic tropes, her paintings evoke the passing of time, the variation of days, nostalgia. Often in counterpoint, mnesic markers throw up evidence of a psychic life in search of
a formula for existence.
Life isn’t good it’s excellent constructs a panorama that is at once personal and destitute. In its deliberate sentimentality, affection is also the locus of humour, just where it hurts most. Corpataux’s painting evokes areas of contact between memory and art and the idea of a life as celebration.
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, Come back and stay, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, Come back and stay (detail), 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, B-b-b-b-b-baby, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, B-b-b-b-b-baby (detail), 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Exhibition view, Elise Corpataux, Life isn’t good it’s excellent, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, Untitled, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
.Elise Corpataux, Michel (from ALL YOU HAVE IS NOW), 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, Untitled, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, Mental Funk (from ALL YOU HAVE IS NOW), 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, Untitled, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, What I wanted, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, Unknown Babies, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, Untitled (from ALL YOU HAVE IS NOW), 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, If I (from ALL YOU HAVE IS NOW), 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Elise Corpataux, Untitled, 2023. Photo : Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg