Marie-Jo Lafontaine

Marie-Jo Lafontaine (born 17 November 1950) is a Belgian sculptor and video artist.

[1] She studied from 1975 to 1979 at l'École nationale supérieure d'architecture et des arts visuels.

[6] She has worked in many media including "tapestries" in which she weaves black-dyed wool into linear patterns; sculptural work using plaster, concrete, and lead; and photography.

[6][7] She was awarded the Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge in 1977;[8] a FIACRE grant from the French Ministry of Culture in 1986,[9] and in 1996 the European Photography Award.

[10][2] Critic Konstanze Thümmel describes the dominating themes in her post-1980s video work as "association between Eros and Thanatos, passion and reason," and that Lafontaine explores these "...through powerful images of people and animals in extreme situations.