Sivard, who grew up in Estonia – a country with a turbulent history of occupation and resistance – explores how major political forces leave their mark on the lives of ordinary people.
Through her art, she brings together themes such as female grief, care, resistance and intergenerational trauma, always with an empathetic absurdist perspective, melancholic humour and hope. She searches for moments of connection in difficult times and shows how resilience can arise from vulnerability.
Costumes and sculptural forms play a leading role in her work. She uses them not only as objects, but as living stories full of empathetic absurdity and melancholic humour.
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Lisette Sivard is a visual artist and designer. She studied fashion at the Estonian Academy of Arts and costume design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In her work, she explores what it means to be a small person in a big world — with a focus on the fragile, the poetic and the political. She has received the Mathilde Horlait-Dapsens Prize, the JAT Prize, the Eduard Wiiralt Scholarship and the Young Applied Artist Award, among others.
Costumes and sculptural forms play a leading role in her work. She uses them not only as objects, but as living stories full of empathetic absurdity and melancholic humour.
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Lisette Sivard is a visual artist and designer. She studied fashion at the Estonian Academy of Arts and costume design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In her work, she explores what it means to be a small person in a big world — with a focus on the fragile, the poetic and the political. She has received the Mathilde Horlait-Dapsens Prize, the JAT Prize, the Eduard Wiiralt Scholarship and the Young Applied Artist Award, among others.
EXPO - on continuous display in the entrance hall
by
- Lisette Sivard
