Lucie Loy.

Lucie is an artist, curator and writer. Her visual practice is largely concerned with ideas of the contemporary image, and the different ways that the image is disseminated and mediated in our social and political spheres. She is interested in the way that we understand and navigate the images we experience, and how we might decipher authentic, moral, ethical, philosophical and rational debates through decoding the things that we see and the stories that we are told (or we tell ourselves). Through this lens, her work explores processes of signification and, more specifically, how these processes might be made visible through the content of an artwork. Works engage intertextual strategies, each artwork compulsively referencing its many varieties of self, content, history and maker. Inside of this situation the notion of an absolute or original meaning is consistently deferred — while it might feel close, ‘truth’ is always kept just out of reach.

Alongside her independent practice, Lucie has committed much of her professional capacity to platforming independent, artist-led and experimental practice. She has worked on and created many projects that seek to deconstruct the contemporary art economy and decentralise established systems of power. Lucie is interested in the ways that contemporary art practice intersects with, informs and is influenced by culture. This circular relationship informs the way that she works, and underpins her approach to cross-disciplinary collaboration and critical, community-building projects.