Lucile Desamory is interested in the frontiers of perception, in the „too much“, the falsified – in the spurned narratives. This interest in marginal phenomena always requires to change the medium. She uses painting, drawing, embroidery, collage, photography, film, and her voice. She combines these techniques into larger webs such as installations, films, radio plays and live performances like for instance in the installation “Wild Inconsistency”, Beaufort Triennale 2015, the film ABRACADABRA 2013 Tate Modern and Anthology Film Archive NYC, in the radio plays and the performance Asteroseismology 2018 with Sabine Ercklentz and Margareth Kammerer. Many projects are created as collaborations. She has just finished her second feature film “Télé Réalité” a collaboration with two filmmakers from DR Congo, Glodie Mubikay and Gustave Fundi, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.
Lucile Desamory lives and works in Berlin.
Selective Filmography
Feature Films
TÉLÉ RÉALITÉ, in coll. with Gustave Fundi and Glodie Mubikay, Belgium-Germany-RD of Congo, 2020
ABRACADABRA, Belgium, Germany, 2013
Short Films
Foules (dans l’atelier de Christophe Berhault), 2011
Dark Matter, 2010
Haut les Coeurs, 2007
Countdown to Nothing, 2006
Solo Shows/Screenings (Selection)
2021
-My people (Heaps and Piles), Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
2020
–TÉLÉ RÉALITÉ, World Premiere at Berlinale Forum Expanded
2019
–ABRACADABRA, at Kirche Zwingli, curated by Isabell Spengler, Berlin
2018
-Pasigrafia, Super Deals, Brussels
–Communicating with the beyond, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
–Communication avec l’au-delà, BOZAR, Brussels
2017
–Frankenbiting, Dolores, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
2016
-An Uneasy Cessation of All Things, Galerie Mieke van Schaijk, Holland
2015
-der goldene Schlüssel, Glasmoog, Cologne
2013
-Former Lives, curated by Heike van den Valentyn, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
–ABRACADABRA film presentation Anthology Film Archive, New York
-ABRACADABRA film presentation, invited by Stuart Comer, Tate Modern, London
2012
-Schädigung der körperlichen Integrität durch Wunder, Kunsthalle Frisch, Berlin
Group Shows (Selection)
2020
–Part of the Problem, Berlinale Forum Expanded Exhibition
–die Antwort kommt, curated by Susanne Weiß, Kunstverein Leipzig
2019
-Tele Reality in Kanon Fragen, curated by Anselm Franke and Paz Guevara, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
-Alias, Netwerk, Alost
2017
-Collaboration, Quetzal Art Center, Portugal
2016
When Textiles become Form, curated by Marketa Vingerlová, Hunt & Kastner, Prag
2015
-Beaufort Triennale, Belgium
2012
–A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance, curated by Catherine Wood,Tate Modern, London
-Te Kust en te Keur, Mu.ZEE, Ostende
Performances
2020
–Die besondere Perrücke, with Antonia Baehr, Residenz Leipzig, HAU Berlin
, Mousonturm Frankfurt
2019
-Asteroseismology, with Sabine Ercklentz and Margareth Kammerer, Beursschouwburg Brussels, Ackerstadt Palast Berlin, Ausland Berlin
–Kopier Gruppe, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
2018
-Wandering Dunes, by Nicholas Bussmann, Taxis Palais Innsbruck, Museu Serralves
2017
-Singing Yesterday’s News Again, by Nicholas Bussmann and Natascha Sdr Haghighian, Documenta 14 Radio, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin-Kassel
–I’m not one of us, by Yan Jun, DAAD galerie, Berlin
–Secret News, by Nicholas Bussmann, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
–Wir, by Yan Jun and Nicholas Bussmann, Ufer Studios, Berlin
2015
–The Fall of the House of Usher, with Lindy Annis and Nicholas Bussmann, Ausland (Berlin), Schaubühne Lindenfelds (Leipzig), Mu.ZEE (Ostende)
–Major News Minor News, by Nicholas Bussmann, März Musik, Berlin
2014
-The News Blues, by Nicholas Bussmann, Museu Serralves (Porto), Hangar Biccoca (Milan)
Radio Plays
2013
-Ein bisschen weiter nach Osten / Un peu plus loin vers l’Est, with Nicholas Bussmann, coproduced by France Culture and Deutschland Radio, 52 min
2010
-Radio Télépathique, Production France Culture, 40 min
Publications
-Former Lives, Strzelecki Books, 2013
–Le Coin du Diable, Green Box Verlag, Berlin- Zürich, 2006
–Une Relation Compliquée Avec la Transe, éd. Fais-le-toi-même-si-t’es-pas-content, Paris, 2003
Selective Discography
-You only need to know how it feels to believe – Nicholas Desamory, album, Staubgold, 2015
-Gold and Diamonds – Nicholas Desamory, single, I’m so blasé, 2013
-Like you, album – Nicholas Desamory, m=minimal, 2012