The work of the artist and film maker Lucile Desamory explores the eerie and inexplicable. However, she is not concerned with references to another world, to a beyond, but with the limits of perception, viewed from an explicitly earthly perspective. Her films and artworks have been shown internationally, amongst others at the Tate Modern, Anthology Film Archive, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain and Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, Kunsthalle Zürich, WIELS and Mu.ZEE Oostende.
In her broad practice, which has included diorama, film-making and live performance, collaborations take a big part. Desamory has collaborated among others with Kevin Blechdom, Nicholas Bussmann and Luke Fowler on film and music, Antonia Baehr and Lucy McKenzie on installations and film.
Lucile Desamory lives and works in Berlin.
awards and grants:
IFA (Förderungen Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), Stuttgart, 2016
CERA Partner in Arts, Belgium, 2011
Rölf Partner Stipendium, Düsseldorf, 2011
KünstlerInnenprogramm, Senat Berlin, 2010
Selected Filmography
Feature :
Suspended Disbelief, in pre-production
ABRACADABRA, 2013
Shorts:
Dark Matter, 2010
Foules (dans l’atelier de Christophe Berhault), 2010
Haut les Coeurs , 2007
Countdown to Nothing in coll. with Kevin Blechdom, 2005
A l’ombre de l’hyperboloïde , 2004
La Série:–1. L’infirmière cannibale, 1999 –2. Le générateur d’ondes électro-psychiques, 2000 -3. Clone zone in coll. with Patricia Gélise, 2000 –4. L’ennemi, 2000
Vandales et Vampires (Nuits Sanglantes), 1999
La Fesse noire, 1998
Crachat, 1997
La Polyclinique de la Peur, 1997
Performance
The Fall of the House of Usher, with Lindy Annis and Nicholas Bussmann, 2015
Solo Shows (selection)
2016
–Frankenbiting, Dolores, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
-An uneasy cessation of all things, Mieke van Schaijk Gallery, Den Bos
2015
–Der goldene Schlüssel, Glasmoog, Köln
2013
-der Drall, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf, Germany
–Former Lives curated by Heike van den Valentyn, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Germany
2012
–Schädigung der körperlichen Integrität durch Wunder, Kunsthalle Frisch, Berlin
2010
–Ovomancie, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin
2008
–The Butterfly Dance, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin
–Quitte ou Double, invited by Caroline Nathusius, Cologne
2007
–Sursum Corda, STUK kunstencentrum, Belgium
Group shows (selection)
2015
-Triennale Beaufort, Beyond Borders, Belgium
2014
-Art Protects, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
2013
–Evil under the Sun, curated by Lucy McKenzie and Milovan Farronato, Stromboli
2012
–A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance, Tate Modern, London
-Te Kust en te Keur, avec Caitlin Keogh, Beca Lipscombe, Carolin Lerch and LucyMcKenzie, Mu.Zee, Oostende, Belgique
2011
–Le printemps de Septembre à Toulouse “D’un autre monde”, Toulouse, France
-Town-Gown Conflict group show organized by Lucy McKenzie, Kunsthalle Zürich
2010
–Larger than Life – Stranger than Fiction 11.Triennale für Kleinplastik, curated by Ulrike Groos and Heike van den Valentyn, Fellbach, Germany
–Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery, London
-Auto Kino! curated by Phil Collins, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
2009
–Happy House oder Kleine Reparatur de Welt, curated by Gertrud Peters, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
-Droomburchten en Luchtkastelen, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Belgium
2008
-Un-Scene, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
2007
-Die neue Filmschau, Kino Metropolis, Kino Arsenal, Hamburg-Berlin, Germany
2006
–Jigsaw (jeu de société) collaboration with Lucy McKenzie and Birgit Megerle, Cabinet Gallery, London, U.K. and Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin, Germany
-Looking back curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York, U.S.A.
2005
-Jigsaw (jeu de société), collaboration with Lucy McKenzie and Birgit Megerle, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.
-Fenêtre sur le court-métrage contemporain, Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
Bibliography
books:
–Le Coin du Diable, Green Box Verlag, Berlin- Zürich, 2006, 350 ex.
-Une relation compliquée avec la Transe, éd. Fais-le-toi-même-si-t’es-pas-content, Paris, 2004, 100 ex.
reviews and catalogues:
–Film review on ABRACADABRA, by Jafarkas in Tiny mix tapes, 2014
–Former Lives, catalogue, essay by Heike van den Valentyn in conversation with Lucile Desamory, SB Verlag – Kunstraum Düsseldorf, 2013
–7 Femmes, by Jean-Max Colard in les Inrockuptibles n°813, 2011
–Ovomancie, catalogue, essay by François Jonquet, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin, 2010
–Lucile Desamory. Das Dritte Auge by Alexandra Horn in Lager Than Life, Stranger Than Fiction. 11. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach. Fellbach 2010. S. 69-72.
– The House of Lucile by Bruce Haines in Untitled n° 39, Autumn 2006
– Lucile Desamory, L’horreur en super 8 by François Bonenfant in Bref, 19 oct. 2004