LUCIEN LYON
Exhibition dates: OCT 12 — NOV 01, 2025
Open hours: THU — SAT, 2pm — 6pm
Also open by appointment or by chance
LAGE EGAL [RIVOLI#41]
Chaussée de Waterloo 690
1180 Brussels, Belgium
Curated by Pierre Granoux
sonderlage@lage-egal.net
+49 1731807226 (WhatsApp)
The practice of Lucien Lyon explores the dynamics between materiality, construction and processes of identity formation. Working across painting, sculpture and installation, the artist investigates how salvaged construction materials can be reactivated as carriers of meaning when displaced from their utilitarian function. Far from inert matter, these materials are approached as performative agents that structure both space and perception.
By recontextualizing them, Lyon creates a tension between their raw solidity and the potential for play, opening them to new semantic and sensory fields. The work is grounded in personal references to formative stages of life and in archetypes circulating within collective memory. Construction thus emerges as both a material process and a metaphorical framework through which subjectivities and environments are continuously shaped. The works operate as sites of negotiation, where the rigidity of matter encounters the fluidity of memory, imagination, and cultural reference.
This approach finds a singular expression in Dragon Drama, a modular installation composed of large wooden panels and paintings of varied formats. Using reclaimed materials, the work combines painting collage, pyrography, dye and surface treatments to generate a hybrid visual universe.
References to heroic fantasy and fan art of video games and films are interwoven with cartoon aesthetics reminiscent of childhood mascots. Together, the elements form a structure that recalls both a hut and a fortress. Dragon Drama deepens Lyon’s recurring themes by proposing an immersive experience. It sets childhood and learning against brutality and transformation, while questioning how memory and cultural references shape our perception of both reality and its mutations.
