Emoplux

French artist living and working in Brussels, Raphaël Lecoquierre (born in 1988) develops a practice intimately linked to the photographic image, both its specific material properties and its suggestive power, which he manipulates with the help of experiments and unique processes.
Begun in 2010, following the unexpected discovery of a set of photos washed up on a seaside, the Nūbēs series is now central to his work. It brings together a diverse set of paintings, sculptures and installations produced using a process that makes use of a vast set of vernacular analog photographs. These family images, landscapes or other instruments of memories gleaned and accumulated over time, are dissolved by oxidation in order to extract the colored substance. The pigments removed are incorporated into Venetian stucco and used as a raw material for the creation of patterns.