Lu’s story revolves around photography. For as long as she can remember, she has always loved photographing things and the people around her. After a first year at a visual arts school in Paris, Lu went to Berlin to rediscover her art, an experience that allowed her to better understand her practice and her own story.
It was in Berlin that the first axis of her practice developed: portraiture. Lu focuses on queer individuals. She wants to show them, to discover who they are, their identity, and their relationship to their bodies. Through images, Lu seeks to express what cannot be said with words. She places great importance on dialogue and on understanding her subjects. She wants a human connection, to learn from each person she encounters. In her approach, Lu enjoys working with people who have never been models before. She knows they are not acting or performing, they are simply themselves. In this ongoing search for intimacy, she chooses the apartments of the people she photographs as her settings.
After several adventures across Europe, she decides to return to the land of her childhood, in Mulhouse. This return to her roots marks a transition in her work toward her own intimacy, her story, and her memories. It is a dive into her past in order to build her present. Lu interprets the fragility of memories, whether good or bad. Although she sometimes loses herself in a form of masochism through painful memories, she seeks to approach each event with distance and an analytical gaze, almost a scientific approach. At the same time, she does not forget the therapeutic aspects and the emotions that the experience brings her.
The one who once expressed through images what she could not say with words now also uses writing to catalogue her subjects before constructing her creations.
In her way of working, Lu ventures into new disciplines: performance, installation, sculpture, printmaking, sewing, and more. This diversity offers her many possibilities for evolution in her work. It is a trait that characterizes her and drives her to learn from everything and everyone. Since arriving at Motoco, she has taken advantage of the presence of other residents and their expertise to inspire and nourish her projects. Her presence enriches the community and brings a smile to those who cross her path.
Lu constantly navigates between the intimacy of others and her own. She seeks to learn and understand in order to approach essential questions of identity.
