Born from chromed and streched functional surfaces, Cleo Chrome {CC} produces steel pieces of body adornment, thought in a genderful perspective. Through adornment, Cleo Chrome questions ways of linking sculpture, fashion and accessory by building wearable pieces activated through dressing and movements. The project creates bonds between industrialized materials and handcraft, mainstream trends and Haute couture, low- and high-quality, popular or preciousness. Some of the pieces works like chest-plates, referring to chest mail and Middle Age armors, as some others are inspired by y2k aesthetic, or trends and slang from social networks.
By building landscapes of melted sources and twisted chains on lava-edged shapes, CC's pieces refer to a generation that distorts a present with other forms of time and reality, combining in its core, aesthetic of dystopia inspired from apocalyptic Sci-Fi, smashed samples of Nightcore music, 3D material, video gaming universes, stretched and glitched visuals. An aesthetic drawn by blurred outlines, loud materials and over-layered processes.
CC’s approach could be compared to AI processed visuals, blending fragments of a certain internet culture. A dissociating culture of the present time, in which grow new forms of fictional, speculative, alternative worlds where expressing identities is going beyond framed society canvas. CC uses a visual lexical linked to protection, defense & empowerment as a survival guide for a generation desirable to find ways out from disrupted systems.
Cleo Chrome brings Hearts out from abysses, by excerpting empowerment tools from vulnerable places.
All the pieces were/are made by Cleo Chrome from the cutting, the welding and the assembling in Brussels, Belgium.
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2017 Master degree in graphic design & editorial conception at ERG {Ecole de Recherche Graphique}
2017 Co-founder of Ambiance office.
2017—2019 Co-curation of several shows at Ambiance office
Production of show displays and functional sculptures for several shows as Ambiance office
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all the photographs were taken, edited & optimized by Cleo Chrome. © Cleo Chrome, 2023