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Portrait of Lucy Cordes Engelman, 2022, photo: Annemarie Wadlow
‘I love thinking of water as something that washes away rigid habits’ – in conversation with artist Lucy Cordes Engelman
Approaching her research materials and media as ‘collaborators’, Lucy Cordes Engelman willingly invites uncontrollable agents into her artistic process. Guided by the work of hydrofeminists and ancient women mystics, this leads her to create playful and engaging encounters. Currently, she is travelling on a boat in the Arctic, as part of her residence at The Arctic Circle.
In her on-going research-based practice Lucy Cordes Engelman (b. 1987, Washington DC) creates sensorial spaces that seek to re-imagine established narratives. Before moving to the Netherlands and graduating from the Master Artistic Research at the KABK in The Hague and the advanced Masters of Research in Art and Design at Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Lucy worked in the film industry of Los Angeles. I meet with her as she is about to head to the Antarctic for a residency program.
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Lucy Cordes Engelman, Close to the SALT/SEA - book/folder/carrier bag, 2022
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The Taste Undid Our Eyes!, 2021, Lucy Cordes Engelman
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Lucy Cordes Engelman, SAPLAB: “For the infinite has no walls” with Paz Ortúzar and Bernardita Bennett, 2022
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Lucy Cordes Engelman, Losing its name, a river enters the sea, 2022
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Lucy Cordes Engelman, Lupine in the Shark Shack 2022
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Lucy Cordes Engelman, The Gift of the Seal Mother, a film in fragments, 2021
[1] Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water., Astrida Neimanis, in: Undutiful Daughters: Mobilizing Future Concepts, Bodies and Subjectivities in Feminist Thought and Practice, eds. Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni and Fanny Söderbäck. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Nele Brökelmann
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