Lucas Dupuy's paintings attempt to find an intersection between language and form. There is an influence of Nature within the work which also contrasts heavily with Brutalist architecture and formal elements. There is a layer of anxiety within the work, whether it is reflected in the composition, the tension and strain between marks, or by the colour palette, that can be very ghostly and eerie, in contrast with the more optimistic and calmer.
‘The preoccupation with time and memory, the agency of minerals and landscapes, and the way that all of us “are caught up in the rhythms, pulsions and patternings of non-human forces” is of essential importance to the eeriness in Dupuy’s work, and its relationship to the “magical-circumstantial.” Rather, instead of the mysteries of ancient stones, we are provided with the phantom remains of modern relics, contrasting the idyllic animism of rural landscapes with a gutted urban fatalism.’
- Charlie Mills, 2022