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L'école de plein-air
2018
Lucas LEGLISE
Photography
40 x 50 cm
Cibachrome print
The open air school of Suresnes was built at the beginning of the 1930s, inspired by sanatoriums: it was designed to offer open-air therapy to children that needed to be protected from tuberculosis. The classrooms imagined by architects Eugène Baudoin and Marcel Lods were detached houses. Their walls were large glass screens that could befolded so that there would be no separation from the outside and that the children could study outdoors. L'école de plein-air [The open air school] shows one of these screens where the trees of the park and the reflection of the classroom blend, questioning the possibility of concurrence between the world and the place where it is studied: how is the space constructed, what is our relationship to the world, and, at last, is it best seen through a lens and a prism?
Born in 1992 in Chalon-sur-Saône, France
A graduate from the École Supérieure d’Art of Chalon-sur-Saône and from the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Lucas Leglise works and lives in Paris. His first works were thought-out as ready mades: it is still the case now when he exhibits films, slides, or works as they are exhibited or being installed in perfect mise en abyme. He uses the tools offered by photography to question this very medium and the links between reality and its image. Exploring our relationship to pictures, he evokes the possibilities and limits in how we engage with the world. His works have been exhibited inFrance, in China, and in Japan.
Artworks of
Lucas LEGLISE
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