Biographie
Marie Lukasiewicz (Paris, 1982) is a French artist living and working in Seine-Saint. Her artistic practice is
focuses on environmental and pollution issues. Very concerned about ecology, she deepens
his work by combining it with strong scientific support. The boundary between reality and fiction is always tenuous in his
photographic projects and derision also play an important role. She works with different media,
mainly photography, but also video, sound and text.
She obtained a degree in photography at the Ecole nationale supérieure Louis Lumière in 2006 after a preparatory certificate in photography at the University of Paris 8 in 2003, a BTS in visual communication at the Ecole supérieure Estienne, Paris in 2002 and a Baccalaureate in applied arts at the École supérieure Estienne, Paris in 2000.
She exhibits in several European countries such as Finland - Gallery Himmelblau, in Greece at the festival, Benaki Museum, in Holland at the Noorderlicht Fotofestival in Gröningen, in Belarus, in Portugal where she will be the winner of the Discovery Prize at the Estone Da Imagen festival in Braga, and in many other countries including France, at the Boutographies in 2016
Présentation
The photographer documents the study, "concentration of heavy metals in the vegetable crops of plantations close to major road axes. What are the benefits of the overconsumption of vegetables grown in areas of intense traffic? ", conducted by a team of scientists from the University of Kryhrsk. This project stems from her own research on the legitimacy of the location of some of the workers’ gardens. The series is presented as a research, a dynamic proliferation. It includes images of vegetables and plants accompanied by sounds recorded in the gardens from which they are extracted. Located off the motorway , you can hear the sounds of nature, birds, wind, but also of cars and trucks that pass nearby, the opposition is striking.