Lucie
Herlemont

I am a french visual artist. I joined l'institut Saint-Luc de Tournai in 2012, it was for me a first artistic approach. I then did a degree at l'Ecole supérieure d'art et de design de Valenciennes. In 2019 I am a laureate of La Créativité demande du Courage at the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis. I joined the Académie Royale des beaux-arts de Bruxelles in the sculpture workshop in 2020 and obtained my Master's degree. In 2022 I am Revelation by Art'up in Lille Grand Palais. 

Coming from a region with an industrial past, I grew up between fields and abandoned factories. A certain inclination for laborious work and craftsmanship permeates my practice.

I work from various myths and rituals to develop a syncretic and anachronistic universe. Thus, the questions of inheritance and gesture run through my projects in a dreamlike lexicon: a rustling of poplar leaves that reveals itself when interrupted, paper lace cut with a scalpel, human teeth suspended by dental floss, a greenhouse where the plants of mourning suffocate...

It is in the cohabitation and the dialogue of diverse customs, observed throughout the world, that my artistic research unfolds.