Frédérique Loutz

She started a long time ago and is far from having finished. She likes neither objects nor subjects. She rules nothing. The population of diverse figures she lives with and brings to life is her equal. She crossbreeds and rushes shapes, not to complicate them, but to the contrary, to recover the innocence drawing demands. She mixes techniques, not to combine or confuse them, but to allow contrast to set them apart. She permanently tries to renew what she traces, and succeeds without quite making it. The recurring patterns in her work over the years are both recognizable and never quite the same. Frédérique Loutz lies within this identity that relates, looks back, and doesn't resemble itself any more. She constantly travels and sends us news from the front. She speaks several languages and makes us read them all at a time, teaching us her own personal dialect. She tells no stories and knows only of the concrete world. She doesn't play games with us. She doesn't mind being understood, as long as no one requires that she makes herself clear. On the other hand, she gives all the clues.

"I make use of mythology and tales, because there is no psychology, only actions. In my work as far as I'm concerned, there is no tragedy, no humour, no drama and nothing absurd, just an inversion of worlds without hope or salvation. I blend repertoires to specify the addresses. Playing with sense and sound are gymnastics that strengthen the physical move "

Frédérique Loutz, Entretame (conversations), 2012

A resident of the Villa Medici in Roma in 2006-2007, she was nominated for the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Prize for contemporary drawing in 2009, and participated that same year in the Force de l'art Triennal. Her works are in important private and public collections (such as FNAC, Centre Georges Pompidou, FRAC Picardie, FRAC Auvergne). In the last years, she has also been commissioned for many works in public space, private patronage and fashion. She teaches drawing in the Marseille school of fine arts.