Frédérique Le Lous Délpéch

(French -  Brittany)

"This exhibition talks about travel, cartographies, paths… It was inspired by readings, mythologies, portolans, travel stories. For some books I worked together with the author Jean-Pierre Dalle and the jewelry designer Marianne Maret who inserted small memory objects into the pages. Portugal, land of great travelers, Lisbon and the Tinta gallery seemed be in tune with my books, which will now show here. I was born in Brittany into a family of travelers and sailors, I grew up on an island in the Indian Ocean and my books tell, through the pages, journeys, interiors and geographic. The cuts made on the pages are openings to horizons surprising, for our personal mythologies.”

(Frédérique Le Lous Délpéch)

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“Who is this living being, man or woman, that we see or guess from a distance? Which group do you belong to? How does it exist? And who am I? Perhaps to understand it a little, we name the people and propose to give them a life, a story. We traveled. Isn’t that the essence of life?”

(Jean-Pierre Dale)

Curriculum:

“An artistic training in Fine Arts and a master's degree in aesthetics at the Sorbonne led me to teach visual arts at a high school.
My artistic path progressed towards engraving and multiples and gradually towards the production of unique books.
These books are made one by one in my atelier and with few copies.
They are often unique and painted or printed by hand.
These small paper theaters invite everyone to rediscover themselves in the cutouts and poetic images on the pages.
Many books have found their place in rare and precious book reserves, in media libraries and among collectors.
I usually talk about travel, wanderings, the sea and its shores. They are all the story of an encounter with beings: an author's text, a handmade paper, an artisan, a little thing collected.
For this exhibition, in Lisbon, at the Tinta nos Nervos gallery, I present books that talk about travel, people, territories, the paths taken that make us who we are.”

Frédérique Le Lous-Délpéch