Lise Stoufflet
Lise Stoufflet is an Astérides Resident in 2015. The archives of Triangle-Astérides do not allow for the determination of the exact dates or the duration of this residency in 2015.
“I try to construct images that generate thoughts.
To illustrate a statement is to answer a question.
I prefer that my work ask questions.
It’s when I myself am surprised and intrigued by my own image that I reach the point where I want to take you. Because I aim to go beyond what I think I’m talking about, to evoke, to surprise, and to create hypothetical stories.
I question the limits of what is called the ‘real’ world; all it takes is to close our eyes for the screen of the imagination to appear — and we blink 1,200 times per hour. So it’s fair to think that this blurry separation is merely a human convention.
In the same way, the frame offered by the stretcher of a painting has long ceased to be an impassable boundary. The canvas is a window, and it makes perfect sense that the narrative sometimes escapes it, to anchor itself — or ink itself — in the ‘real’.
I like to extract objects from my images; it gives me the illusion of having taken a little trip over there (/up there). As if to prove to myself that other worlds exist.
Humans naturally need to believe in other worlds, to integrate fiction into reality. Evidence of this can be seen in the many documentaries, books, or magazines claiming the existence of parallel worlds and extraterrestrial civilizations, urban legends, gurus, etc. (not to mention religions).
This back-and-forth between the real and the imaginary intrigues me deeply.
So I also draw from esoteric books, documentaries about the end of the world and its unexplained mysteries, ghost stories, cults, scientific theories (verified or not), and various legends I always want to believe in.
In my way of working, intuition is something extremely precious.
I start an image with an intention, accepting that the process of creating it will lead me elsewhere.
Eager and curious about what will eventually come into being, I try to convey a certain atmosphere and seek the precise point where the image will say just enough — and not too much — to give rise to hypotheses.” - Lise Stoufflet
Lise Stouffet’s work is on display during the exhibition Actuellement en résidence #1, 2015.
