Marie Lukasiewicz

Beyond Coral white

Marie Lukasiewicz's artistic approach questions reality by playing on the ambiguity of a fictional staging. Engaged in a reflection on current environmental issues, in conducting an investigation into the bleaching and destruction of coral reefs and the exploitation of coral in the paramedical industry. The study of these organisms, which are essential to the balance of nature and yet doomed for extinction, reveals a complex system of interdependence that is beyond our imagination. Inspired by a 17th century engraving by Philippe Galle representing the looting of the seabed, Marie Lukasiewicz questions perpetual and enduring behaviour despite the ecological emergency. She articulates her research through several mediums - photography, video, sound recordings and object exhibitions - and confronts the viewer with a contradictory universe, endowed with regenerative and destructive capacities, both ultra-realistic and artificial. She holds out a mirror to us to question our habits of consumption and self-medication, our beliefs and hopes and the actions that result from them. The minimalist, aseptic and dreamlike aesthetic of his images parallels artistic practice and scientific research, both driven by strong determination and an unlimited capacity for projection.

Photographer

Marie Lukasiewicz

Marie Lukasiewicz (Paris, 1982) studied applied arts and visual communications at Estienne school followed by photography at Louis Lumière school. After graduation she worked as an assistant in Canada and on her return to Europe she moves to Germany and joins the collective ParisBerlin Fotogroup. She collaborates on many projects with other artists in France and Germany.
Her artistic practice focuses on environmental issues and pollution. Very concerned by ecology she deepens her work in combining it with a strong scientific support. The border between reality and fiction is always vague in her photographic projects and derision also plays an important role.
She has participated in several group exhibitions, Noorderlicht Fotofestival, 2017, Boutographies 2016, Rip Off Arles 2014-2017, Goethe Institute (Paris, Lille, Lyon, Toulouse), 2015-2017.
Back in France today she reinforces her approach with a closer collaboration with the scientific world. In 2018 she was selected to participate in the Parallel Platform program and develops a project on corals and their bleaching.

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