Lou Marcellin

I see my work as a metamorphosis of the dream work into the materiality of an image, sculpture, video or sound.

Physical processes play witness to changing forms. From the initial image of reality, every following step becomes the trace of the previous one, the former stage acting as the main thread for the next.
The transformation operates in the first instance between the material world and the mind via the camera. The image always requires a surface in order to become manifest thus the mind translates these images into further materialization.

The photographic frame confirms an image’s two-dimensional form. What I am interested in is the exchange of processes through which an object is transformed from a three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional surface (in photography) and is thus reinstated back into three-dimensional forms from the image into sculpture. This exchange of processes is manifested in the mediums that I endeavor to employ.

In my practice I highlight universally innate needs such as eating and sleeping, and re-present them in a theatrical and interactive manner. I’m interested in the nuances which are created through the variation and the automatism of repetitive gestures customary to this natural need.
The perception and use of domestic spaces which stage the performance of these everyday actions loom large in my work.

The mechanistic faculties of the piece operate on two levels, one being the internal mechanisms of the
prefabricated machine elements, the other being the organic mechanisms provoked by transitory negotiations with the participant.