Amélie Mourgue d'Algue is an Art Writer.
Her practice is a practice of reading and translating.
She works with found images and words, extracting them from the context they were encountered, transforming them to make visible their workings as representations.
Exploring the effects of the reification of words and the rhetoric of objects and images, she employs different conceptual strategies and a range of media (prints, video, drawings, sound, installations) to produce representations of representations.
Process observing itself and turning itself into things, her practice is the documentation of a process and the document itself. Always “under erasure”, unfinished and not-to-be finished, it carries the potentiality of other presentations and re-presentations.
Born in 1970. French, lives and works in London.
Sept 2010- Goldsmiths MFA Art Writing
June 2009 Graduated from Central Saint Martins BA (Honours) Fine Art
June 2004 Central Saint Martins, Diploma Foundation Studies in Art and Design with Merits
June 1991 Graduated from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris ('Sciences-Po') in Economics and Finance
Before turning to art, worked in corporate environments for close to ten years: at PriceWaterhouseCoopers as an auditor for five years in Paris, Princeton and New York, then as a consultant in New York and London for another three years; finally for two years at MCI WorldCom, a large multinational telecom company, as financial planning manager in its international division.