Lucie Pastureau - Les Hotels Paris Rive Gauche like photography

MARCH 2009 : LUCIE PASTUREAU

Bedrooms

As a child, bedroom too small, clothes, books and toys on the floor, and the threat that all of it would be thrown out of the window. Then, piles of clothes on the parquet, and others thrown into wardrobes

The bedroom in the afternoon after coming back from school, several months of touching before accepting

The one that was the scene of my first time, and going up the ladder to get to the bed, him looking at me, behind, the burning between the thighs, then the trousers that you put back on, tight, too tight

And later, other nights, the noise of his parents making love, whereas I have no more desire

A bunk bed in a tiny room in a ski resort, the feeling of having been forced, tears in my eyes

The one on the seafront, love quietly, stifled so as not to be heard

At the hotel, a moment so waited for. And love impossible, the body that refuses, sick

The one of the last love, almost adulterous, the bed directly on the floor, one of his shirts on my naked skin, the noise of the street below, through the wooden shutters

At an absent friend's place, love twice in a row, I cry the first time and he does the second

All the shared ones, with the fever of the desire to be alone together at last, eager hands

The one that I come back to, after the accident, disfigured, love as a desperate act to erase the marks on my face, head turned

And, the room that you no longer want to leave, to remain in, in retreat from the world

Hotel des Grands Hommes
Eiffel Park hotel

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LUCIE PASTUREAU

Born in Pithiviers on 30/05/1982
Lives and works in Paris

Tel +33(0)6 24 81 47 49

Email : pastureaulucie@yahoo.fr
Web: http://lucie_pastureau.ultra-book.com/

Exhibitions / Commissions

2009: participation in A Hotel Photo, and Artist's View
Personal exhibition à la Jeune Création gallery(Paris) in March

November 2008: laureate at the portfolio readings for the Mois de la Photo (off), Paris
July 2008: Nomination for the Work in Progress contest organised by the the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Photographie's student association
2008 Special mention, portrait scholarship
2008 Exhibition of diploma projects at the in Situ/Fabienne Leclerc gallery, Paris 6th arrondissement
2008 Laureate of the “Errance” contest organised by the Paris Institute of Political Studies

2007 Collective exhibition at the l’AFD (French Development Agency) and the Photography Biennial in Bamako on the theme of health, following a voyage to Mali
2007 Set-up of the Françoise Pétrovitch exhibition at the Parc St Léger Art Centre & photos for Semaine magazine published by Analogue

2006 Collective exhibition at the gallery of the Ensad
2006 Personal exhibition with Lionel Pralus in Bruxelles (Le Chantier gallery)
2006 Participation in “des mots pour voir” (Words for seeing) - 4 photos published

2004 Photo exhibition in Gdańsk (Pologne) with Mariusz Hermanovicz

Diplomas

2008 National Diploma of the Arts Décoratifs with special mention from the jury (Paris)

2004 National Diploma of the Arts Plastiques (Orléans)