Elsa made this interpretation of Bensimon’s iconic sneakers for their 40th birthday. Bensimon asked several artists to customize and create an artistic and personal vision of their iconic sneakers. Elsa made her pair with chicken wire covered with multicoloured tin foil that has been cut into strip and glued all over the papier mâché sculpture.

Length 23 cm
Width 9 cm
Height 7 cm

Elsa made this dog head sculpture to hang on the wall as a trophy. She sculpted the shape of the dog out of chicken wire, covered in papier mâché and then coloured with different glitters for each part of the dog’s head. This sculpture is exhibited at Anyway Galerie in Bordeaux (France).Her idea was to mimic the traditional animal’s trophy shape and pour it into a fantasy glittery dog, like a cartoon character.

Length 23 cm
Width 20 cm
Height 21 cm

Elsa created this sculpture for the trade show Playtime in Paris. It is part of a collection of imaginary constructions. She built it out of cardboard in a spontaneous way to create tiny fantasy houses. The colours are worked with acrylique paint, and some are covered in oil pastel chalk.

Length 100 cm
Width 80 cm
Height 12 cm

Elsa made this mask out of hard cardboard, covered in papier mâché, and coloured with multiple glitters. She often makes masks, trying all sort of different shapes and colours. This traditional object, present in every culture around the world, has an infinity of shapes and meanings. Elsa loves to use this form to express the multiplicity of our beings, and create fantasy characters as a metaphor for our condition and emotions.

Length 42 cm
Width 33 cm
Height 8 cm

This is one of the first masks that Elsa made, inspired by the skull ones that are made in every culture around the world. She made the shape out of cardboard, covered it in papier mâché, and coloured it with tin foil and acrylic paint. This mask is one of the many Elsa has made trying to create a tension between death and joy.

Length 25 cm
Width 30 cm
Height 8 cm