EXHIBITIONS FROM 28 SEPTEMBER 2023 TO 14 JANUARY 2024

Lucie Lanzini's sculpture-installations seem to borrow from the tools of the architect and surveyor. She uses the rope that was once used to measure distances and the change in scale of objects to construct trompe-l'oeil, provoking shifts in our physical and retinal apprehension of space.

Walnut (2022) reproduces an oversized walnut shell in blown glass. What used to fit in the palm of one hand is now held in both. The warm woody shell gives way to the cool shimmer of tinted glass. Our imaginary perception of the walnut persists, with the very present physical commonality that each of these models can be broken. The greedy outcome of the broken nut plays with that of the "catastrophe" of broken glass. Lucie Lanzini summons up our prior experiences, both retinal and physical, and plays with them by contradicting them. Ceilings become floors in Succésion#1 and Traversée#2, in which she casts friezes from Haussmann ceilings. Jewellery comes to mind in Watchman (2022), where two polished bronze chicken feet set a thick resin rope like two precious stones on a ring. These devices have an alchemical precision in which Lucie Lanzini invites the physical experience of space to play with that of its perception, as one would play in a mirror.