lucile soussan (b. 1990)

"Born in 1990, the French multidisciplinary visual artist Lucile Soussan extends her field of action from traditional craftsmanship to contemporary art and specializes in color design for the luxury and cosmetics industry. Winner of the 3under30 prize promoted by the Galerie Daniel Blau and former student of the National School of Fine Arts in Paris at Eric Poitevin's studio. Her work is rooted in ancestral cultures. In her eyes, there is a strong kinship in the unique bond of these peoples with nature and she recognizes herself in this sacred approach to life. Photography remains for her a nomadic art to discover shoots in nature like a hunter-gatherer of images. From these collections made during long hikes, she keeps memories associated with their digital files. The challenge is to restore materiality and make this memory exist. She is imbued with images by Georges Shiras and texts by Jean-Christophe Bailly, the animal constitutes “an Other” whose discretion fascinates her. Soussan is particularly strongly influenced by contemporary Japanese photographers,

Takashi Homma and Naoki Ishikawa. The raw vivacity of their images moves her, and this is perhaps one of the reasons that motivated her to combine photography and engraving. Photoengraving allows, by means of a complex experimental technical process, to engrave a copper plate which will become what she calls ""a mold of an image"". This adventure allows her to reactivate the memory of sparks from a distant nature.

""I wanted to realize a work at the crossroads of the marvelous and the primitive at the same time purified and carnal. The anteater, by the mischievousness of its form, invites a detour. It is only after having finished this sculpture that I detected its origin in a Japanese scroll painted by Hokusai. More than the nature of the animal itself or its luminous environment, it is the artist's tone between humor, poetry and animism in which I recognized myself.""

Group exhibition catalogue : https://issuu.com/ajpmeyer/docs/ contemporain_x_ancien_catalogue

Dragons de mer

2016

Engraving and ink on paper

76 x 56 cm

Price: 1.500 euros aRtWORk pResented BY:

Anthony J.P. Meyer

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