Lumi Lorthe

I work with manifestations of the animate.

Everything starts with a source subject. Maybe not exactly a subject, but rather something that once was, something like a fossil: an empty shell, a root or dried fruit, a piece of vegetable matter, dehydrated mushroom...This source will then take root in my mind and gradually develop.

I'll draw it. I'll cut it. I'll explode it, looking for volumes and undisclosed spaces. I'll put it back together and reconstruct it. Gradually a new shape will emerge on the paper, a shape that has freed itself from the original living matter but which still retains its presence. Creating the presence of a thing from the inanimate, a new evocation of "still life" if you will.

"Behold these objects from which we depend, since from these we can distance the night." (Francis Ponge)