Who am I?
I am here, still, seeing far beyond. Painting transforms what you see into something infinite.
My paintings are here, still as well, but oh so present. In any language, what is well voiced has the power to move, painting is a silent language and a universal script.
Fred Lafourcade
Born right in middle of the Champagne region's vines, Frédérique Lafourcade has lived in various places around the world where the difficulty of expressing her rootlessness has inspired her to paint. For her paintings, her interest has grown in organic and vegetal materials, which she will continue to use and manipulate throughout her career.
An artistic journey around the world
In the 80s, she moves to Paris where she studies the art of painting at the Penninghen studio and then at the Sèvres studio.
At the same moment she embarks on a career in fabric design which enables her to pursue her studies and to consider making a living from her passion.
Attracted to Germany's cultural diversity and the new breath of freedom that spread in the 90s, she moves to Düsseldorf, where she begins to practice her artistic talents.
But alreadyshe is seduced by other artistic trends and colors. She then moves to Buenos Aires (Argentina), where she spends four years in natural settings and wild vegetation, then two years in Bruss els (Belgium), where she immerses herself in new underground trends, two years in Tokyo (Japan), where she undertakes research into calligraphy using noble papers, and another year in Munich (Germany), where she reconnects with the depths of her roots.
The creative process
All these environments directly influenced her art, they constantly inspire and improve her work. From ethnic shaman trends in Argentina, to post-industrial tags in the Ruhr region in Germany, grapho street in Brussels, unstructured Kanji in Tokyo or structure and nature collages in Bavaria.
Back in Paris in 2018, she sets up her studio in the 16th arrondissement, where she finds that the stillness and quiet are essential for her creativity. Each year, she shows her work in Saint Germain des Prés in a boutique featuring Japanese-inspired objects. This resonates with her work's Zen-like purity.
Frédérique Lafourcade mainly works on cardboard or wood. Her art uses all kinds of materials, such as soil, ashes, sand, old papers, forgotten books or even pieces of canvas to which she gives a second life. The use of these different materials allows her work to come back to its original soil, and to create a specific resonance of light and color.
