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Luke James

The weight of matter and the strength of sensitivity in art. Interview with Luke James

Posted on 22/02/2023 by Fabio Pariante

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Tell us what you do and your beginnings.

Since the very beginning, my practice is composed essentially of a work of sculpture but also of photography and painting which invokes a physical relationship to materials and space. My sculptures can be decomposed as a series of sensitive and weighted gestures practiced on materials worked in a rough way. My photographs are primarily fortuitous situations or provoked by the meeting of dissonant elements, echoing the forms elaborated in my sculptures.

Globally, it develops in the course of pieces functioning like indexical and fragmentary traces of the dissection of relations between relations of power and curiosity: the Man, the animal, the architecture, and the social classes are some of the components of the interactions observed and questioned in the daily day. In exhibitions, I attempt to articulate sculpture and photography, which then act as reciprocal indices of reading. The exhibition space becomes a territory to conquer, and to play with that I appropriate gestures of construction as deconstruction.

Loon, Luke James. Photo ©Laurent Langlois

Right after my studies in ENSBA in 2015, I was invited to do my very first solo show in Barcelone the same year in a space called Homesession. The next year I was selected for Le Salon de Montrouge and a year after, to Revelation Emerige, a french prize for young artists. Between 2015 to 2019, I was moving a bit here and there with residencies like CCA Kitakyushu (Japan), Le Bel Ordinaire (France, Pau), and in Praiano in a partnership with BOZAR (Brussel) and Sol Lewitt house. I am now living in Paris.

What does your work aim to say?

I like to represent these situations that we all know through sculptural assemblages orchestrating an unstable symbiosis between a micro-action and an arsenal of materials. I believe that it is the gestures that count the most, they are even the most trivial ones that define us: biting into an apple, playing cards, drinking from a bottle, stroking an animal…

I try to deconstruct these events, to crack them in a way, in order to question their inscription in collective representations and in an altered spatial and temporal context. I work with domestic materials, playing with their properties, their history, and the narratives they invoke. I am a slacker of the material because it is it that really works, conditioning its transformations and my movements towards it. My relationship with sculpture is actually very primary.

La nuit je mens, Luke James. Photo ©Phoebe Meyer

Where do you find inspiration for your art?

The “at-hand” could be the very condition for artistic creation and a tool to see, to become aware of the being of what is around us, analogous to Heidegger’s proposal in Being and Time, for whom the street is a “tool to go”.

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