
Louise Chardon has dedicated her life to exploring motion in all its forms, through a diversity of expressions and metamorphoses.
Trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, she began her career as a dancer in international companies, later collaborating with various independent choreographers. In 2007, she embarked on her own creative path.
Together with Luk Van den Dries, she co-founded AndWhatBeside(s)Death and CarWash Theater: a platform and space for performing arts development in Antwerp, Belgium. Together, they have created several performance projects such as Ay¨n, Sensorama, I-lessness, Lab-Project, Vortex, Fenestra Ovalis, W∞M, and Clair-Obscur.
At the same time, Louise studied visual arts for four years at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Drawing, an intuitive and cathartic practice, has always been part of her life. Her approach, more kinesthetic than visual, leads her to explore living matter: her drawings and sculptures are tactile immersions into the depths of the body—her own body—in search of the invisible and the intangible.
Through dance, drawing, sculpture, and video, she explores and transcends the singular and shared dimensions of the organism. Her work gives form to the multiple facets of existence, the plural truths that coexist within a living being.
For over twenty years, Louise has specialized in the study of the deep sensory capacities of the human being and the ways in which the subconscious expresses itself through movement. She applies this research to her approach to visual arts and live performance, while also sharing it through pedagogical and therapeutic practices.