Lucille Uhlrich

Lucille Uhlrich was born in 1984 in Strasbourg (FR), she lives and works in France

Lucille Uhlrich is a researcher. With tenacity, she applies herself to bringing forth what lies beneath the superficial layer of reality, to discovering new levels of meaning. The translation of an idea into an object, just like the passage of a word from one language to another, is always a vector of both gain and loss of meaning. This movement, both deceptive and creative, interests her for the by-product it generates: the remnants, in a way, of a purely conceptual vision of art. It is this interstice that is suggested, with mischief, by the circle of bilingual dictionaries placed back-to-back, seemingly bouncing words back and forth like ping-pong balls. It is also there that she chooses to construct dwellings in a postmodern style, with her series Etc. Her works often trace a fictitious, perhaps ideal, space within elements borrowed from art history and its contemporary reuses, treated as networks, maps, or potential worlds.

Text by Camille Azais

Lucille Uhlrich’s work in on display during the exhibitions LOST IN THE TWENTY FIRST, 2011; Après avoir tout oublié [After having forgotten everything], 2015.