Delphine
Lecamp

UP . 29.01.2020

Born in 1975

Lives and works in Rennes

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Baskettes, 2013
Installation
© Photo : Laurent Grivet

Delphine Lecamp’s praxis is rooted in a medium (steel) and an extremely physical sculptural technique. The pure energy (body and electricity) required by this work deserves to be underscored, for what it involves in terms of time and heavy industry, but also in terms of aesthetic posture. From a shoe synonymous with lightness, the artist imitates all the folds of the canvas, the elasticity of a sole grooved with lines, the imprint of time on the wear and tear of surfaces—deceptive mimicry, going against the grain of prejudices associated with the virile material which she uses. Because the delicacy of the treatment here espouses the extreme heaviness, two faces for a single medium which the artist strives […]