Lucie Gauthiot (FR)

from Catalog - Expo De Poche - March 2023

Lara Erel (DE)

The common thread in Lucie's work is a sheet of textured mulberry paper, produced by hand in Nepal Halfway to textiles, it is a place where she inscribes colors and shapes on emotions that no words could describe It is both a place of expression and a framework from which she tries to free herself, sometimes by combining several sheets in the same work. The irregularity of its 1600 squares is the constraint of her freedom

At the beginning, nothing is planned. Often, a color has caught her attention She needs to explore it, to dissect it in nuances, to see what it has to offer Sometimes it's a sound or the rhythm of a voice that has been driving her for days, and she needs to give it a body Sometimes it's the words of a novel or an interaction with her loved ones that inspire a gesture

Every sensory experience she has through interactions in the real world is a source of visual exploration

Thus, her paintings are like histological sections of emotions. They offer a space of life, without judgment or other constraint than their support, to emotions which seem invisible but which however guide our daily choices and our movements To give them a living space where they are sublimated, at a time when they are often demonized, stifled, making us slaves of their hidden power because we do not want to assume them.

For the spectator, no other use than a moment of connection to an external object, out of step with reality. To leave the mind and to be carried by the color, the form, the movement To return for a few moments to the senses to take a new perspective at our reality