14 January - 14 March 2020
You have a new memory | Marie Lelouche
Galerie Mazzoli / Eberswalder Str. 30, Berlin
Born in 1984 in Saint Junien, Marie Lelouche is a graduate of the Ensba de Paris, the Sorbonne, Le Fresnoy–
Studio national des arts contemporains and is currently pursuing a doctorate in research/creation at the Université
du Québec à Montréal and Le Fresnoy with the topic Post-digital Sculpture. Her work, of minimal and abstract
aesthetic, has been shown internationally, including in France at the Musée du Lam or the Mirage Festival, in South
Korea at the Studio National d’Art Contemporain, in Brazil at the Casa de Bailar, in Italy at Spazio Thetis and
Galerie Alberta Pane in Paris and Venice.
PRESS RELEASE
Galerie Mazzoli is pleased to present You have a new memory, Marie Lelouche's first solo exhibition in
Germany.
Technology is at the core of Marie Lelouche’s practice, a bulky roommate and an indispensable accomplice
at the same time. Lelouche has equipped herself with the most advanced technology: a 3D scanner she uses in order
to take soundings of public spaces and accumulate what we could superficially define as "memories". It is precisely
the word "memory" that calls her attention and originates You have a new memory. In this exhibition, she eviscerates
it and examines it as a living body, endowed with its own individuality.
"You have a new memory" is a message with which technology breaks into the private sphere, forcing us to
deal with memories that sometimes seem anything but our past. Cold and anonymous slides, digital memories
appear distorted, even false, creating a feeling of dissonance. This awareness prompted Lelouche to investigate the
mnemonic mechanisms of the human mind, discovering that it works in a way which is equally fallacious.
Recent studies have shown that we store memories using two parts of our brain: one merges the
connections, the oth ...