Beschreibung

Lucie Boudoux is a visual artist trained at the University of Kent and a certified teacher in visual arts. Coming from a mixed cultural background, her artistic practice is shaped by memories of travel and by the intersections between personal and collective histories. Her work is deeply connected to an archipelagic geography, where the effects of movement, whether chosen or imposed, form the primary material of her research. She lives and works in Versailles.

Through gestures that combine rawness and delicacy, layering, covering and leaving things unfinished, Lucie Boudoux explores how creation can help reclaim the fractures within our identities. Her work is centred on traces, absences and what remains despite erasure. She creates fragile forms, from makeshift shelters to fossilised and abandoned tables, outlining the contours of a world suspended between the real and the imagined.

With the series Convives, launched in 2025 and still ongoing, the theme of the meal becomes a field of visual and memorial exploration. Starting from personal photographs, she constructs a vast dinner scene in which each canvas represents one element. She emphasizes certain details, blurs the context and plays with perspective, turning the surface of the work into both an intimate stage and a fragmented memory. The objects appear to float, the colours are tinged with melancholy and the lines remain unfinished, as if revealing the shape of memories and the substance of dreams.

Each painting in the series can be rearranged: aligned, scattered or brought closer together, creating a table in perpetual motion. The viewer is given the freedom to bring forth a new narrative and to transform the work into a composition that is both monumental and intimate.

By honouring lives often relegated to invisibility, Lucie Boudoux seeks to reveal beauty in places we have stopped looking.

Extract from Lucie Boudoux autobiography. Read More