Lucas Ngo is a French artist who lives in Berlin since 2020. Inspired by mythology and tales, his work explores his current obsessions through ink and oil painting, combining transparency, mist, and blur in his visual language. Portraits turn into landscapes, acting as repositories where memories fade away, condense, and scatter. There is a feeling of drifting that emerges from contemplating these evanescent images, the residue of encounters that trigger affect and emotions. While attempting to erase, his portraiture paradoxically opens up even more reminiscences. From intimate memories, shifting gaps emerge in space and time, mingling presence and absence around faraway figures that reveal the many forms and landscapes held deep within.
1/1 Exhibition : Interface
Diverse in medium, approach and subjects, INTERFACE in an eclectic group exhibition presented by 4 artists based in Berlin. Zemin Gallery serves as the focal point where the different works meet and interacts. The contemporary, religious and satyrical paintings of Camille Theodet clashes with the mystical and intimate paintings of Lucas Ngo, creating a confrontation in between dream and reality, exploring subjects such as the human body, the iconography, the memory, in two very different languages that, yet, can compliment each other. The new serie of screenprints “FACES OF THE STREET” of Jördis Hirsch, proposes a graphic depiction of people and animals in a reduced archaic style. In subtle humour and socially critical commentary, her works are set in bold shapes of paper cutouts and interacts with the poetic and detailed drawings of Julien Vallé, who shows interest in spirituality and meditation, and tries to fill the void with detailed and repetitive content. INTERFACE proposes four different point of view, that can converge towards the human, be it his body, his mind, his vices or his emotions.
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