Sandra Lecoq

The use of so-called "feminine" techniques (sewing, weaving, plaiting) in Sandra D. Lecoq's work immediately confirms her interest in issues connected with sexual identities. Basing her work on her relational, family and social experience, she sets up an artistic language which derives its forms even in private intimacy. In this oeuvre we find familiar faces, her own, her son's, her partner's, side by side with skulls, raised middle fingers and children's drawings. In it we also see the work of friends, artists she is close to (invited to produce works together). There is the ubiquitous phallus, the majestic and exhausted organ on which one walks (Penis Carpet), and the more generic one which is multiplied on a patchwork ground (Flacid Paintings). And everything is organized so as to assemble the areas of a world which makes the relation to the other a keystone.
When Sandra D. Lecoq paints, she jostles and upsets the painting to the point of becoming insulting. Letter after letter on the canvas, the worst insults come in quick succession, the "hatchet" is not really buried, it explodes, furiously thrown onto coloured fields measuring 2 x 2 metres. "Female Wild Soul" thus rings out like a slogan which expresses a resistant attitude in all docility, an offensive stance which embraces life with passion and an ounce of excess.