Marie Lelouche — À propos — Slash Paris

French artist born in 1984, she graduated in 2008 from Ensba (Paris) and, in 2011, she received her Master in Arts in the University La Sorbonne in Paris. She took part of several group exhibitions, such as “A winter story” at Shunt, in London (2008); “The Shape of Time, From metropolis to Macropolis” at Yeosu, in South Korea (2010); “Eyes on Asia and more…”, for Maria Rebecca Ballestra’s project “Changing Perspective” at Castello d’Albertis, in Genoa (2011). During her stay in South Korea (2010-2011), she participated on Goyang National Art Studio and Nanji Art Studio workshops and, as a result of her artist residences, she had her first solo show “Korean Landscape” (2012), hosted by the Alberta Pane gallery in Paris. She recently presented the solo shows “Luoghi Comuni”, Spazio Thetis, Venice, Italy and “Watch this Space”, Incise, Charleroy, Belgium, 2013. She is specialized in the sophisticated arts of blown glass and porcelain, which she combined to raw materials, such as fabric or wood, by questioning the material limits to derive unequaled shapes. The work of Marie Lelouche consists of “cultivating her feelings” by finding them a form. They take shape in the hardness of the materials submitted. Real exote — as Victor Segalen defined it — the artist experiences the different and the “other” to reach a full freedom in the observation of the object she will describe or just feel. The participating observance and the experience, as means of creation, are at the heart of her artistic practice.