Through photography, Lucie Pastureau tries to capture the micro-disturbances that run through individuals, to represent what is not visible. She thinks of this medium as an encounter with the other and is interested in periods of transition, ordinary fragilities.
The artist sees his practice as a search, a poetic language: she sharpens words, manipulates images, orders and classifies them, studies their narrative potential...
After having worked for a long time on adolescence, then starting from her experience of pregnancy, she initiated a year ago the project Les corps élastiques, with the support of the Institute for photography, around the body that transforms.
Going to meet other bodies, deployed or prevented, with singular journeys, she composes a collective narrative carried by an impulse of emancipation, reappropriation and reconciliation. For the photographer, the encounters/portraits that mark him are a way to make visible the complexity induced by social injunctions, standardization and stereotypes.
Within the exhibition, texts, read or written, accompany the photographs. They open a new dimension, that of a poetic language in which images, voices and intimate narratives intertwine.
“Some grow up, their bodies stretching out, it seems like they want to get out of it, they spit in the face from childhood and rush into adolescence. Sometimes, they starve it to slow down its spreading and deformation, and thus accelerate their fall. Others, in their entangled and prevented bodies try to cope with their rigidities, to make themselves lighter and to tame the pains. And then there are those who become the ones (and vice versa), who have always had an itchy skin that doesn’t fit their inner shape.
And again these others, inhabited for several months by a being who resembles them. Some are in fusion, real dolls; for others, it is impossible even to imagine, and their body tries to make them forget it. – Lucie Pastureau, extract from the Corps élastiques
The exhibition will open on Thursday, February 12, 2026 during an opening evening open to the public. A moment to appropriate the images in music, with gentleness and poetry.
at 6:30 PM – presentation of the exhibition by the artist and Anne Lacoste, director of the Institute for photography
at 19H00 – lecture performée: texts and reading by Lucie Pastureau / sound composition and live music: Léonie Young & Olivier Desmulliez
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The elastic bodies received support from the PRAC (Projects with Artistic and Cultural Influence) of the Hauts-de-France Region.
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Practical information
Théâtre du Nord
4 Place du Général de Gaulle, Lille
theatredunord.fr
↘ Tuesday-Friday: 12H30 19H
↘ Saturday: 14H 19H
↘ Closed on Sundays, Mondays and holidays (excluding representations)
↘ Free admission
↘ Exhibition accessible to people with reduced mobility