Ingrid Luche

Ingrid Luche develops a work of sculpture and installation on the perception of space altered by memory. From the investigation to the reinvention of forms conducive to the citation of his sources, his works openly summon those of the artists who feed his projects. Architectural, aerial or interplanetary spaces then find an echo in mediums that are familiar to us.

The Chinoiseries are paintings made on cheap laminated boards, deformed by humidity, here that of an Ikea table. Its support, witness of an economy of the import-export dialogues with a globalized circulation of the images, identifiable and categorizing.

In general, the images that Ingrid Luche paints in the chinoiseries are taken from photographs taken in different contexts and which echo a pictorial writing already seen: the fantasy tinged with melancholy in the architecture of a radio telescope (photographed in Nançay), the exoticism of oriental fish in the basin of an exotic garden (in Madeira), the idea of comfort carried by a fireplace (at her parents’ home), the colonial identity exoticizing the architectures of the Tiergarten zoo (in Berlin), the wild flowering as a decorative motif invading the painting (where the confinement suits the Bois de Vincennes).

This series is part of a larger and polymorphic project, Devoured. Through this, she conducts a sculptural research operating by diverting and appropriating objects and forms from popular or/and scientific culture (singular craft productions, sampling of signs especially in the field of public transport, manipulations of digital images, interpretations of Martian images, forms-tributes, code systems 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 deformation of our sensitive perceptions testify to the new forms of our lifestyles and consumption?”