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Sarah Lucas

09.22.06 - 10.15.06
Exhibition — Couvent des Jacobins

Sarah Lucas, exhibition view, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, 2006

© Printemps de septembre, photo André Morin

Fuck Destiny, 2000
courtesy: Sarah Lucas ; galerie Sadie Coles HQ, Londres - Exhibition view "Lignes Brisées / Broken Lines", Les Abattoirs, Printemps de septembre, 2006

© Printemps de septembre, photo André Morin

Born in 1962 in London, she lives there.

 

Sarah Lucas, enfant terrible of the young English art scene, and member of that generation of Young British Artists (YBAs) which was the talk of the town in the 1990s, comes across as a provocative and radical feminist artist. Her early collages speak out against the sexism of the tabloid press. In the series of photographic self-portraits produced between 1990 and 1998, she presents herself in anti-feminine poses of defiance which directly provoke the viewer. Made using everyday objects (mattress, furniture, clothing, neons, food, cigarettes...), her very spare installations form allegorical still lifes with powerful sexual connotations. Bunnyis a kind of alter ego of the artist, an anthropomorphic sculpture attached to a chair in positions of abandonment, like a soft and ambiguous version of Bellmer's doll. Lucas uses her body, be it real or metaphorical, as a place of rupture and subversion.

 

She shows a set of recent works in the refectory at les Jacobins, and le Printemps de septembre is thus offering her one of her first opportunities to exhibit important works in France.