I, Leoni Pirenne, am a scenographer, costume designer and visual artist.
My set and costume designs consist of clearly chosen colors, shapes and materials in which an overarching concept is the starting point. What recurs are tightly implemented color palettes with a strong sense of detail. Light and transformation play an important role in my scenographies. I am always looking for a development in time. These transformations often have a revealing or dismantling character. The imagination is broken down, revealed, awakened or slowly blown out.
My art consists of installations, video works, sculptural costumes and performances in both the white cube of a museum or the black box of a theater. I combine temporary scenographic architectural constellations, neon lights and colors, plastic chairs and other mass-produced elements, with quotes from popular culture, theme parks and signs from the political and economic world. The artworks with these elements are raw and ambiguous; there is an ironic gloom in them. It is disturbing or this becomes it as time unfolds. Fiction and reality blend together. With these artworks, I try to capture human concepts, put them into perspective and show their absurdity. Humor plays an important role in this.
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