Nathalie Duc is a Swiss conceptual and contextual artist whose creative focus is on elaborating complex systems of concepts, translating them into visual or scriptural media. She works with different materials, such as silk paint, drawing, acrylic paint, polymers or...
Read MoreNathalie Duc is a Swiss conceptual and contextual artist whose creative focus is on elaborating complex systems of concepts, translating them into visual or scriptural media. She works with different materials, such as silk paint, drawing, acrylic paint, polymers or various pastes. Her fields of research touch on socio-economic issues, control and technologies. Nathalie Duc has studied the complex issues surrounding surveillance, transhumanism and technology, to understanding an emerging regime. She also works on the value of her artworks, allowing her receivers to influence their price.
As part of her bachelor's degree at edhea in 2013 in Sierre (Switzerland), she invented two imaginative platforms of action called Secret de Sucre and Chlorure de Sodium. Both projects won her the City of Sierre prize. The artist produced a scriptural, sound and performative work as part of her master's degree (Critical Curatorial Cybermedias) at Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design Geneva in 2015, for which she received the Prize Neuman from the City of Geneva. The work in question consisted of a dissertation including various articles, a dystopian short story, the Key-Déli-Ô-Scope, a sound piece embellished with a light device, and a performance.
She has exhibited several times in Fribourg, as well as at the Biennale de Montreux. She has given conference-performances at the University of Lausanne, Grenoble and the EPFL, as well as a collective performance at the Centre de la Photographie in Geneva.
She regularly creates Secret de Sucre interventions in museums and galleries. Secret de Sucre is a conceptual and contextual project that aims to interact with artworks without degrading them. In short, it's an artist's art criticism. Nathalie Duc places objects in front of artworks, creating a performative interpretation of the selected work.
She has worked as a gallery manager, cultural mediator and teacher. Nathalie Duc has given workshops and helped many people as a personal art tutor. Nathalie Duc is currently Professor of Art History at IPAC DESIGN Geneva.
