Lucille Leger & Jacques-Marie Ligot

Jacques-Marie Ligot and Lucille Leger engage in a dialogue around a shared interest in intimate space, gestures, fragile architectures, and the body as a driver of space conception. By focusing on the impact and mobilization of bodies within spaces, they both seek to examine the frictions between the material world and the flows that activate it.

Leger's installations are attempts to hybridize domestic space, the organic world, and the art space. She studies the material arrangements that condition the use of spaces. Her sculptures combine elements of furniture with plant, animal, and human forms, exploring the possibilities of the materials she appropriates and their relationship to different contexts of production and representation of her objects. Her work has been exhibited at the Fondation Pernod Ricard and at Treize in 2023, as well as at the Galerie Myriam Chair in Paris and at Collegium Artistique in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2024. She co-founded the art space "Domestic Cults at Scale" in Nantes and is part of the "Groupe Liaison Concrète."

Ligot interrogates his discipline by studying gestures, with particular attention to vernacular and intangible heritages. Working with installations, performances, and editions, his research revolves around three axes: intimate and collective narratives as design tools, disappearance and the invisible as spatial and political structures, and performative gesture to create an architecture of attention.

His work has been presented at the FRAC Île-de-France in 2023, at the BOZAR in Brussels in 2020, at the C.I.V.A in Brussels in 2022, in Nantes (solo show, Domestic Cults, 2022), and at "An Architecture of Necessity" in Sweden in 2019. He was a laureate of the Ateliers Médicis in 2020 and of the FORTE program with his project "Atlas of Gestures" in 2022. He also created the "Uncomfortable Workshop" at ENSA St-Étienne since 2022 and co-directs the Rencontres (talks) in Paris.