The foundation of Lucie Laflorentie’s approach lies in an articulation between the sense of poetry that the titles of her works evoke and an interaction between gesture and matter.
Whether in her drawings, paintings, installations or work with volumes, the artist delights in manipulating matter and allowing it to surprise her, following a process in which the dimension of the studio is essential and notions of reuse and economy of means occur naturally, both as a stance and as part of her experimental approach.
The forms the scenery takes, whether human-made (architecture) or wild (“nature”), are extracted and isolated in the context of the exhibition, or revealed through elusive site-specific interventions. From then on, through these shifts in gestures and tools, a new interpretation of the relationship between the scenery and the subject appears, in line with the tradition of mesology and following an organic approach, in which environmental issues are knit together with the dimension of a territory’s memory through destruction, reclamation and construction.

Translated by Lucy Pons, 2022

Artistes

At the beginning of my cursus :
Gordon Matta-Clark, Rachel Whiteread, Oscar Niemeyer, Judy Chicago (Smoke and Fireworks), Sol Lewitt, Robert Smithon, Nancy Holt, Sarah Lucas, Caspar David Friedrich, Eduardo Chillida

Today :
Nina Childress, Françoise Pétrovitch, Claire Tabouret, Simon Martin, Marion Verboom, Stefan Rinck, Anne Cauquelin, Gilles Clement, Didier Marcel, Jean Denant, Michael Beutler, Théo Mercier, Lynette Yiadom Boakye

Ouvrages

Free ride, skateboard, mécanique galliléenne et formes simples, Raphäel Zarka (in French)
Manifesto of the Third Landscape, Gilles Clement
Le site et le paysage, Anne Cauquelin
L’invention du paysage, Anne Cauquelin (in French)
Paysage et modernité(s), Recueil, textes réunis par A. Bergé et M. Collot (in French)
Les enjeux du paysage, Recueil, sous la direction de Michel Collot (in French)
Cinq propositions pour une théorie du paysage, sous la direction d’Auguste Berque (in French)
Les formes du relief terrestre, notion de géomorphologie, Max Derruau (in French)
Notes for a general history of the cinema, Serguï Eisenstein
The vision machine, Paul Virilio
Le champ mimétique, Jean Christophe Bailly (in French)
Welcome to the desert of Real, Slavoj Zizek
Foucault in California, Simeon Wade
Un livre blanc, Philippe Vasset (in French)
The Craftsman, Richard Sennett

Matériaux

I mainly use materials from the world of construction, construction materials, but generally in the form of scraps or fragments and with a logic of recovery.
I also use materials from the natural, organic environment and mainly linked to the farming world.
I will learn different artisanal techniques such as making cement tiles, zelliges, and soon inlay and stone marquetry. Then, I move these artisanal gestures and transform them into artistic gestures in order to create works.

Gestures

Drawing, mix the material, remote from the mold, assembly, gather, archive, cut, mould, pigment, move, protect, write

Citations

« Le fait qu’un lieu existe avant qu’on se propose d’y faire quoi que ce soit retentit profondément sur la nature même de l’intervention et pose, de manière radicale, la question de savoir s’il faut ou non intervenir. (…) De ce point de vue, l’intervention minimale, c’est apporter d’autres dimensions sensibles au Déjà-là. » Bernard Lassus.