   | 2008 - 2004 2004 - 2000 2000 - 1980 | After working for many years in glass (Chez les soeurs blanches - 1980) Lemieux in the 90’s started working with neoprene rubber. (Deux Tuniques -1990) In the early 2000’s tired of using a material as heavy as neoprene, she used natural latex rubber.Natural latex unlike neoprene rubber, ages and disintegrates quickly.Eva Hesse’s latex sculpture from the sixties,within a short period of time, oxygenated to the point of often being too brittle to exhibit. In the early 2000’s the weight of the neoprene once again lead to using an opposite material; Liquid latex, a much lighter material could be poured thick or very thin, giving a finer skin. It could be drawn gently onto plastic surfaces, peeled and suspended– Most importantly it is ephemeral. Lemieux sought the quality that eventually made Eva Hesse’s latex sculpture from the sixties impossible to exhibit. Natural latex when exposed to air and light, oxygenates and in time, disintegrates. From 2003 to 2007 this became a quality that was both deliberate and imperative. Scanning (Skinslips 2003 -2005) became both a way of drawing and documenting the process of aging and dying. Conversations about impermanence. Drawings from 1988 onward, are watercolour, pencil, ink or gouache on paper. Figures and gestures range from half an inch to over 5 feet. Floating, paired and clustered into families.They are at times different and at times similar Conversations and reflections on the body– Imparts and in parts. |