Marine Lécuyer
at Percé
EXHIBITION
Préludes (Preludes)
Marine Lécuyer, Saint Pantaly d’Excideuil, France | marinelecuyer.com
“Cliffs, forests, rivers. Signs, apparitions, presences. Rain and fog. During the period of my residency in the Gaspé, I move away from the real and into a world where the sky covers the earth. I walk in a cloud and turn my gaze towards the beauty and power of the natural spaces I cross, gripped by the fragility of the human presence that inhabits them. Here, over there, elsewhere: there are our attempts to be in the world, our failures and our hopes. The river turns into the sea, and in the trees the light turns to gold. On the beach, with my fingertips I touch the millions of years peeling away from the cliff and sliding towards the horizon. One of the edges of the world is here, and it is said that the earth, the rock, the stars and the sea are eternal here.”
A sensitive and subjective experience of the Gaspé region, Préludes travels the paths of fiction to explore the contours of an elegiac, vibrant nature, set in comparison with the ephemeral presence of human beings, in a world where temporalities merge.
EXHIBITION AT RENCONTRES
Préludes (Preludes)
Born in 1986, Marine Lécuyer lives and works in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. A self-taught photographer, she’s developed a personal style at a meeting point of the real and the imaginary, one that is primarily focused on exploring the notion of territory, be it geographical or intimate. Her narratives question the feeling worlds that surround us, and revolve around the question of trace, of disappearance and of memory, with special attention paid to our ways of inhabiting the world and our relationship with living things. Individual and group exhibits have allowed her to show her work at various festivals and cultural venues both in France and abroad. Her photographs are represented by the Arrêt sur l’image gallery in Bordeaux.