Ingrid Luche develops sculpture and installation work on the perception of space as retouched by memory.
Ingrid Luche develops sculpture and installation work on the perception of space as retouched by memory. Her « Chinoiseries » are paintings on laminated chipboard panels, warped by humidity, made from photographs taken in different contexts. Ingrid Luche develops a body of sculpture and installation work concerning the perception of space as retouched by memory. From investigation to the reinvention of forms conducive to quoting her sources, her works openly summon those of the artists who nourish her projects. Architectural, aerial or interplanetary spaces then find an echo in media that are familiar to us. The Chinoiseries are paintings made on cheap, laminated chipboard panels warped by humidity, here that of an Ikea table. Their support, a witness to an import-export economy, enters into dialogue with a globalised circulation of images, identifiable and categorising. In general, the images Ingrid Luche paints in the Chinoiseries are taken from photographs shot in different contexts, which echo an already-seen pictorial writing: the melancholy-tinged fantasy in the architecture of a radio telescope (photographed at Nançay), the exoticism of oriental fish in the pond of an exotic garden (in Madeira), the idea of comfort provided by a fireplace (at her parents' home), the colonial identity exoticising the architectures of the Tiergarten zoo (in Berlin), wild flowering as a decorative motif invading the canvas (where confinement suits the Bois de Vincennes). This series belongs to a broader and polymorphous project, Dévoré. Through it, she carries out a sculptural research operating through diversions and appropriations of objects and forms drawn from popular and/or scientific culture (singular artisanal productions, borrowings of signs notably from the field of public transport, manipulations of digital images, interpretations of Martian images, tribute-forms, systems of codes, etc.). « I am interested in the links that are woven between artistic culture and the economy of images and objects attached to a context, a territory of origin, and affected by their circulation and network technologies. Or how does the distortion of our sensory perceptions bear witness to the new forms of our ways of life and consumption? »