Carte IM

2018

Offset print on recycled paper
1000 copies to take away, on a limestone
Exhibition view Measure the Valleys, 13ème Parcours d’art contemporain en vallée du Lot (13th contemporary art route in the Lot Valley, South West France)
Production Maison des Arts Georges et Claude Pompidou contemporary art center, Cajarc, France

“The fact that a place exists before we propose to do anything there has a profound impact on the very nature of the intervention and raises, in a radical way, the question of whether or not to intervene. (…) From this point of view, minimal intervention means bringing other sensitive dimensions to what is already there.” This quote from landscaper Bernard Lassus accompanies Lucie Laflorentie’s research and wandering in the spaces of the Lot valley during her three-month residency. Her title and her approach integrate this notion of minimal intervention (IM, for French “intervention minimale”) and her attention to what she sees as treasures already present in the landscape. Sharing her associations of ideas on this card to use and/or keep, she also inserts extracts from literary texts.

Exhbition booklet Measure the Valleys, 13rd
contemporary art tour in the Lot valley, Maison des Arts Georges et Claude Pompidou, centre d’art contemporain Cajarc, France, 2018