Encontros da Imagem

Beyond Coral White

IPCI – Instituto de Produção Cultural e Imagem
R. da Alegria 940
Monday→Friday: 9h.30am–1pm / 2.30pm-6pm

Marie Lukasiewicz's artistic approach questions reality by playing on the ambiguity of a fictional staging. Engaged in a reflection on current environmental issues, in conducting an investigation into the bleaching and destruction of coral reefs and the exploitation of coral in the paramedical industry.

The study of these organisms, which are essential to the balance of nature and yet doomed for extinction, reveals a complex system of interdependence that is beyond our imagination. Inspired by a 17th century engraving by Philippe Galle representing the looting of the seabed, Marie Lukasiewicz questions perpetual and enduring behaviour despite the ecological emergency. She articulates her research through several mediums - photography, video, sound recordings and object exhibitions - and confronts the viewer with a contradictory universe, endowed with regenerative and destructive capacities, both ultra-realistic and artificial. She holds out a mirror to us to question our habits of consumption and self-medication, our beliefs and hopes and the actions that result from them. The minimalist, aseptic and dreamlike aesthetic of his images parallels artistic practice and scientific research, both driven by strong determination and an unlimited capacity for projection.

Marie Lukasiewicz

Marie Lukasiewicz (Paris, 1982) lives and works in Paris. After studying applied arts and visual communication at Estienne, and photography at Louis Lumière, she worked in Canada and Germany, where she developed her artistic practice around environmental and pollution issues. Today, she is strengthening her artistic approach by working more closely with the scientific world. The boundary between reality and fiction is tenuous in her projects, and derision plays an important role. In 2018, she is a resident of the European Parallel Plateform program, where she is working on her project on coral reef bleaching and its exploitation by the parapharmaceutical industry. In 2022 she is a resident at Lumière d'encre in the Pyrénées Orientales. She takes part in several exhibitions, 2022 - CAPLE, Céret, FR - 2020 - Backlight Festival, Tampere, FI - Athens Photo Festival, Athen, GR - Noorderlicht Fotofestival, Gröningen, NL - Month of Photo, Minsk BY - 2019 -Encontros Da Imagen, Braga, PT - Capacenter, Budapest, HU - Kauna Photography Gallery, Kaunas, LT -Galerie Le Château d'Eau, Toulouse, FR.

https://www.marieluka.com/

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