Lucas Ngo

Statement

Obsession is something very present in my work. I have the habit of working on a subject until being tired or bored. I work with transparency, blur and mist, this is my graphic approach to help me to express what I want to. Usually I work with photographic or video documentation, mostly daily pictures taken with my phone. Then I start to paint with one of them as a base. As a cards reader would use cards in divination, I use pictures as a means to trigger and awaken something in my imagination, to create a “flash” in my mind that it can prompt a thought or feeling in a truly visceral way. Reusing is a part of my process, I feel objects and images I use carry with them an echo of the past. The potential for an object or picture to trigger my imagination is something I am very interested in. I use reusing from one medium to another. I can transpose my drawings to sculpture and then to reuse ideas for video or installation. Like a russian doll. In the past, I have generally explored memory, evanescence, presence, absence and about portrait. I still work on this themes but currently I’m more into questions about landscape, complex of balance and state of being.

GlogauAIR Project

Lately I focused my research on landscape and with an obsession for stones. Drawing, video, sculpture, installation, I never stopped to search how to reuse stones I collected in Berlin when I was visiting city. I questioned how can we represent landscape and with what, like stones. I joined landscape research with complex of balance that I explored. In physic there is three kind of balance : stable, instable and indifferent. For example after disturbance, an object in stable balance always return to his original position, an object in instable balance will always change of position and an object in indifferent balance can’t be disturbing by anything. I questioned it to structure my works. Dealing with different types of balance in the same space has been an important part of my research. There is hesitation of what is really what it is. Some elements seem to be in a perfect balance but sometimes no, sometimes yes and in contrast with elements which can be disturbing by the first thing able to. I see a parallel between different types of balance and different states of being. I remember three years ago I was wondering myself what represents my state of mind during creation. It is thanks to this question I found levitation was the best phenomenon to illustrate my state of mind/balance, a really turbulent levitation that I included in my landscapes with stones. Before to focus my research on this subjects, I was more into male figure from portrait to body. There is something which didn’t change this is my graphic approach about blur and transparency. My project for residency is to keep exploring landscape and in directions I explained. This research will be without stones but I want to question how to include human figure in space and how it can deal with.

CV Summary

Exhibitions

• 2021
  • – Génie de la Bastille gallery; Duo show with Simon Margat. February
  • – ” Habiter une collection ” Group Show. Curated by David Legrand. Angoulême
  • – Galerie Esther&Paul; Group Show. Paris
  • – ” Carcasse “; Group Show. Paris
• 2020
  • – ” New Era ” Virtual group show, Art Number 23 Gallery. London/Athens
  • – ” Playing with Balance “ Solo show, Cogalleries; curated by Keumwha Kim . Berlin
  • – ” Die Natur Der Dinge ” Group Show, Project Space Kimgo. Berlin
  • – Esther&Paul Gallery; Group Show. Paris

Other

• 2020
  • – Cogalleries / Artist residency, 1st august to 20th November. Berlin
• 2019
  • – Workshop «Laboratory and environmentals performances »; Bourges
• 2017
  • – Synoptique, International comic festival; Angoulême scenography for the Loo hui Phang’s exhibition

Gallery