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A study in contrast.
Sandrine Llouquet
Anthropomorphism abounds. A jester’s good”, she says, and the decision was
face on a bird, leaves as hands, whales made by the school that she should study
“The art in a woman, as arms, a boat full of fish. The hands and alone and not with the other students. “I
the art of a woman. feet of the doberman. It’s all backward in felt the school was not comfortable with a
The girl, the other some way but again strangely harmonious. foreign student interacting so closely with
Beautiful. And these are just the drawings. the Vietnamese students”, she continues.
girl, the man, the Hundreds. Maybe thousands. In 1999 she returns to France to finish her
monsters and And in between is Sandrine – Fine artist, advanced degree, now a full international
flowers – pretty illustrator, VJ, sculptor, salon host, student. From there her work and reputation
social motivator, business owner. Human. would travel to San Francisco, Seoul,
spaces, empty Sandrine was born in Montpellier, France, Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore and back to
places, shadowed the daughter of Vietnamese parents, of France and Vietnam in both collective and
dimensions. The one whose father had been adopted by a solo exhibitions that would span drawing,
Frenchman during the days of Indochine. painting, light sculpture, plastics, digital
algorithm sorts it. In 1993 she commenced her education installations and much more.
The hands record at École Pilote Internationale d’Art et de Frankly, the scope, scale and sheer
it. In between is Recherche - Villa Arson and received her volume of work she has been involved with
Diplôme National d’arts Plastiques. In over the last 10 years is staggering – and to
Sandrine.” 1997 she continued on to the Ho Chi Minh meet her, one comes to realize that inside
City University of Fine Art, in Vietnam and the calm is an absolute storm. We shared
By David Everitt- Carlson immediately realized that she was regarded coffee in her small garden in Ho Chi Minh
as different. “My Vietnamese wasn’t very City last week so she could elucidate on all

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beauty and spectacular ugliness in one
hand – as one can see the frog as a frog
yet see all the working organs inside at
the same time. But it was not an exhibition
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about frogs at all.
Her work with Mogas Station shows
her in context with an artists collective,
whilst the VJ group, JetLag, puts her and
electronics in the spotlight. A new collective,
Wonderful District, seeks to bring all her
disparate elements together but like adding
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only succeed in sparking them all further
apart. The way it was meant to be? Or just
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how it is. That world of contrast. The studies
the work and its reoccurring themes. of Sandrine.
And forget a conversation of artistic Sandrine Lloquet is represented by Galerie
criticism that bends post-modern Quynh www.galeriequynh.com and Bui Gallery
sensibilities with neoclassical foundations www.thebuigallery.com. She can also be found
representing true emotional departures as Director of TumTumTree Illustration agency at
in iconoclastic fashion. Simple words www.tumtumtree.com. n
like enigmatic and imaginative describe
Llouquet and her work much better. And
David Everitt- Carlson is a multiple New York Art
businesslike is also a fair description. She Directors Show and Clio winner who now resides in
speaks in measured non-fantastic tones Vietnam. David currently works in marketing and writes
and espouses a love for Lewis Carroll and the blog The Wild Wild East Dailies. wildwildeastdailies.
blogspot.com.
his Alice in Wonderland, a world in which
the familiar continuously shape-shifts into
the imagery she so tenderly crafts. A little
girl caresses a territorial beast. Watercolor
drips and flows and morphs against jet-
black, confusing positive and negative
space. There is always a second world
to what one thought they were viewing
in the first place. Look longer. See more.
Ask fewer questions. Get better answers.
Explore. Again.
Her “Complex of the Glass Frog”
exhibition at Gallery Quynh in Saigon earlier
this year explored the dichotomy that the
human condition held both breathtaking

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