Christl Lidl,French artist, lives and works in Brussel.

Interview / only in french

Christl Lidl’s artworks question the time forms through images. Thus, in Time Passing II , the inventory in voice-over of each object exhibited of the Louvre’s collection is confronted with the daylight time gliding along the Cour Carrée’s walls. In Storm the brief instant of the flashlight filmed in video ‘last’ only through editing. For the project I will walk along the daylight, the artist ‘synchronises’ the movement of the user-spectator with the walk of a man’s figure who seems to walk at the rhythm of the daylight changes. Stereo II uses the stereoscopy device to combine night and daylight on a single image. Finally the duration and the schedule of a flight journey is the basis for a luminous scenography in LightingAirWay.

On the other hand Christl Lidl’s images seem evanescent, unsettled. In Passage, the reflected portraits in video seem to float within the space, as virtual visitors. In De Rerum Natura, the stereoscopic animals shown in the installation, appear and disappear in terms of a perpetual motion of matter, it evokes the unsettled diversity nature of living. The stereoscopic photographs she takes, emphasize layers of images and unfolds the scenes (Performance; Shelters, etc.).

Christl lidl has been invited in several international festivals as Luzboa, biennal of lighting art pieces in public space (Lisbon,Portugal, 2003), Le Printemps de Septembre, photographic festival (Toulouse,France, 2002). Her artworks have been presented in Canada for The French Season in Quebec, Montreal (2001), and for the French Season in Germany, Dortmund 2000.

The artworks she produces are installations and films (Time Passing I, Time Passing II, Storm, Blindman) ; stereoscopic photographs (Performance, Shelters). She makes collaboration’s projects with other artists as with André Serre-Milan electro acoustic musician for De Rerum Natura, Catherine Melin for the Mural drawing in stereoscopy and a series of 5 serigraphs also in anaglyph. She works with the photographer Jean-René Lorand for the photographic installation Stereo II, as well as with Nathalie Junod-Ponsard for a lighting scenography for a cockpit in the project LightingAirWay.

Christl Lidl creates also site-specific installation for public space like (I will walk along the daylight, Inventory, Passage, Potential meeting).

She has participated in group projects for competitions such as The neutrino’s trap, an interactive installation on a contemporary and scientific investigation (second prize with a special mention of the jury) for Cité des Sciences de la Villette (Paris) and Cinemachina, an architectural competition to exploit the cinematographic collection of Poitou-Charente. She collaborates with the architect Betrand Francqueville for french competitions 1% decoration on public buildings.

Christl Lidl taught at the Fine Art School in Toulouse (2001-04), since 2005 she teaches video-multimedia at the Fine Art School in Valenciennes.

She has the First class honours Degree in Fine Art (Rennes,1994) and she has studied at the Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Art.