Charlotte Diane Cruse                             

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Charlotte Diane Cruse (b.1967) is a French-Danish artist who works with sculpture, drawing, installation and multimedia works. She grew up in France and now lives in Denmark. The vineyards of her childhood are often a reference in her exploration of biculturality. Charlotte sees herself as a form of graft, a result of the mixture of French and Danish culture.

 

Her artistic practice focuses on identity in a diverse cultural context as well as the individual's place in society and through life’s phases. She draws inspiration from her own journey, nature and everyday objects, which she integrates and translates into stories that cross the boundaries between installation and conceptual art. In her art, she asks questions such as: What consequences have cultural mix in our identity? Why do we seek new paths? What is the individual's place in society?

 

In recent years, Charlotte has been working with an antique Chinese bell shape, a symbol for its original function and a human silhouette. She is currently exploring the theme of "the grid," where people's relation to society is at the center.

 

Clay is Charlotte's preferred material, but she also experiments with other media such as drawing, film, resin and assembled or disassembled objects to achieve the desired visual communication.