Natacha Lesueur

Natacha Lesueur, 1971, Cannes Living and working in Paris

She studied at Villa Arson in Nice and made her first solo exhibition in 1996. In 2000, the artist won the Ricard Prize and between 2002-2003, she received a residency at the Villa Medici in Rome. She has exhibited in many countries around Europe, USA, Korea and China. Her works can be seen in the most prestigious public and private collections. In 2011 she had her first retrospective at the MAMCO Geneva.

Since the early nineties, the French artist Natacha Lesueur created within her photographs a world eminently enrolled to the time she is connected to without belonging in any moment to long historical journey that seems to portray. For this, Lesueur doesn’t hesitate in using different techniques and ingredients – from any type of food, ornaments, decorations, fantasies and other wonders – that engages parts of the human body to recreate images hardly classifiable in the history of photography. Disgust and a logic seduction emerges at the same time when you see the works. In Natacha’s pieces, violence can be seen coming from a scenography made with clinical precision, we see a deep gap withering these rarely photographed entire bodies that are exposed to an insurmountable quartering: that is their world and their surface. There is also a great technical expertise in the making of each image, an inventiveness that makes to these developed visions a singularity linked to its rarity and its never-failing capacity to surprise: this would be the reason why they belong to a form – the caprice – deeply rooted art and history. About photography and its eminently capricious identity.

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