Lulu Guequierre
Lulu Guequierre (b. 1999, USA) is a self-taught, figurative painter based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
Guequierre channels their compulsive need to document life into their large-scale, expressionistic
paintings. Their work plays with and embraces the error involved in translating photographs into
paintings, the skewed “fiction” of an autobiographical perspective, and the tension between alienation
and intimacy in the relationships they depict.
Guequierre’s process involves continuously layering new scenes over old paintings and sketches - a
process that releases illusions of < finality >, resulting in spontaneous compositions that merge past
and present into new configurations.
Through this process of revision, willful and explorative error, Guequierre encourages the lapses in her
translation of photographs, their lovers, intimate partners, and dear friends mostly being the subjects,
through saturated colors and energetic and loose brushstrokes. The act of recycling many of their
previous work physically induces the dissolution of time, uniting scenes through morphed images, new
incorporations and recreations. Guequierre uses painting as a way to dismantle, recreate, understand
and celebrate the relationships of their life.
Lulu Guequierre (b. 1999, USA) is a self-taught, figurative painter based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
Guequierre channels their compulsive need to document life into their large-scale, expressionistic
paintings. Their work plays with and embraces the error involved in translating photographs into
paintings, the skewed “fiction” of an autobiographical perspective, and the tension between alienation
and intimacy in the relationships they depict.
Guequierre’s process involves continuously layering new scenes over old paintings and sketches - a
process that releases illusions of < finality >, resulting in spontaneous compositions that merge past
and present into new configurations.
Through this process of revision, willful and explorative error, Guequierre encourages the lapses in her
translation of photographs, their lovers, intimate partners, and dear friends mostly being the subjects,
through saturated colors and energetic and loose brushstrokes. The act of recycling many of their
previous work physically induces the dissolution of time, uniting scenes through morphed images, new
incorporations and recreations. Guequierre uses painting as a way to dismantle, recreate, understand
and celebrate the relationships of their life.