After a degree in modern literature and a training in the fashion industry, Angélique Lefèvre, known as Angélique, worked in the field of haute couture before beginning in the 1990s to create sculptures in organdy, the sheerest cotton cloth, from a traditional work of pattern, seam and embroidery.
In line with her textile artworks, she transposes the technique of sfumato by making some photographs with diaphanous and ethereal outlines and, then, transparent sculptures in PET (polyethylene terephthalate).
For a few years, she works acrylic plaster in series of sculptures directly molded from various blister packagings that she collects (domestic utensils, toys, beauty or DIY products…), like the "Prôsopons" or "Géométriques" whose shapes respectively reveal their anthropomorphic or aesthetic nature.
Her work is focused on signs of contemporaneousness, through the genre of still life (HIV Virus, McDo, Future foods…) and portraits of people filled with urban cultures (French riot policeman, Hip-Hop dancer, woman with piercings…). Her technique borrows from the one of a couturier, sculptor and surgeon. The transparency and the whiteness of her artworks brings a strange sensation of fullness and emptiness, presence and absence, like pictures getting away from reality before disappearing completely. Her material is the support of a real story but at a distance, common and sublime, a metamorphosed and poetic description of fragility of beings and things.
Her work is part of many public and private collections: Frac Haute-Normandie, Chahan Minassian collection, Barry Friedman collection…