Lucie Loy, Work, Projects

I am an artist whose work spans visual art, curating, research, writing, publishing, and relational, community-based projects.

My visual art practice explores the contemporary image and its various modes of dissemination and mediation within social and political spheres. I am interested in how we understand and navigate the images we encounter, and how we might decipher authentic, moral, ethical, philosophical, and rational debates by decoding the things we see and the stories we are told (or we tell ourselves).

I extend this inquiry in my curatorial projects by exploring and reinforcing notions of self-organisation, social practice, and peer-to-peer frameworks. In these contexts, I seek to platform the importance of art and artists in critically and creatively addressing global and social struggles. I see this practice as inextricably linked to how we 'see' the world and how positionality shapes our engagement with knowledge, perspective, and sociocultural practices. Within this framework, images can act as catalysts for alternative theoretical and practical work, exploring new epistemes, new forms of living-together-in-solidarity, and new social infrastructures.

I am interested in the ways that contemporary art intersects with, informs and is influenced by culture. This circular relationship informs the way that I work, and underpins my approach to cross-disciplinary collaboration and critical, community-building projects.