Lucy Watts

Lucy Watts was born in 1988, she lives and works in Isère (FR)

“My drawings are not editorial cartoons. A turkey in a saucepan. I speak about the everyday. A McDonald’s vending machine. It’s all in the gesture, the small phrase that reveals our fragility, our lack of stability. The ingredients in a packaged cake. I try to pinpoint the actors of an unbalanced society. The percentage of black cars involved in accidents. I revisit our daily lives through humor. The masterpieces of the MoBA. Anecdotes hint at the absurd and allow for multiple levels of interpretation, always built on a humorous tone. The Raging Grannies movement. My references include absurdist literature and British nonsense. The bestseller list. Drawing remains, for me, the best way to express an idea. The frequency of the term ‘problematic’ in the press and media.

I work on the disjunction that can occur between the image and the idea it conveys, that inner mechanism triggered by a sense of suddenness, reinforced by the spontaneity of execution. The reconstruction of Noah’s Ark. The boundary between fiction and reality is disrupted by the line, by the drawn mark that constantly raises the question: is this real, or an invention, a projection? And drawing, executed in urgency, prolongs the exhilaration, the excitement sparked by that question.

‘All cats are mortal. Socrates is mortal. Therefore, Socrates is a cat.’”