
Lucia Luptáková (*1977, Bratislava, Slovakia) lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and Banská Bystrica (SK). She studied Architectural Design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and completed both the MDes in Autonomous Design and the MFA in Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. Since 2000, she has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows in the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany, and Curaçao. Her work has been supported by the Mondriaan Fund(NL), the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (NL), the Amarte Foundation (NL), the Tijl Fund (NL) and the Slovak Arts Council (SK). She has participated in several international residencies, including Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and Instituto Buena Bista in Curaçao.
My work is an ongoing investigation of spaces around me: their character, constitution and the way we are using, experiencing and remembering them. I construct site-specific architectural sculptures/spatial installations.
My starting points are physical attributes of a place or an object, context of the situation and here out forthcoming presumptions and routines regarding behaviour and movements. By spatial interventions I create a new scenario and change the spatial experience, I manipulate the perception, the mood and the expectation of the user (the public). By doing this, a specific place, distinct experience, particular moment are re-discovered, re-lived and re-appreciated. The places highlighted by my works unfold into contemplative timeless experience moments. In addition to the actual physical reality, the artwork contains another, felt reality: the collective memory, personal associations, memories, stories, dreams.
The participation of the public, their ‘use’ of the sculptures and their interaction with each other complement the artwork. The audience participates by simply being present, by moving through the installation and by experiencing the space. My artworks are primarily physical constructions to be entered and experienced by multiple senses. I'm looking for a direct connection with the perceiver: the reality of the physical and the emotional experience is penetrating, unavoidable. The awareness of own perception leads to the awareness of the space, the surroundings and the context. The audience can uncover further layers of the artwork in own degree of (self)recognition and knowledge.
„A break-down in normalcy must be provoked, thus Martin Heidegger’s claim, so that we begin once again to notice the SPACE we inhabit.“
(Elisabeth Bronfen.'Chryptotopias. Secret Sites/Transmittable Spaces'.Totes Haus Ur. La Biennale de Venezia 2001.)
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