Amélie Mourgue d’Algue is a storyteller. She weaves stories born out of her experiences and those of others. She is looking for the universal in the singular, the common in the personal, the social and the political in the individual.
Her practice is concerned with the dialectical relationship between discourse and tale, facts and invention, literality and fiction. It explores how the mode of signification - Benjamin’s ‘mode of intention’ - of a chosen medium participates in creating displacement and opening in an artwork.
Amélie’s works often combine written or spoken words, found and made images and objects. Sometimes hers, sometimes quotations and appropriations, they form a text to be read by others, opening and shaping spaces for the viewer to inhabit and explore.
Her current work is concerned with the emotional ambivalence and social ambiguity associated with contemporary motherhood.
Born in 1970. French, lives and works in London.
Sept 2010 - Sept 2012 - Goldsmiths MFA Art Writing
June 2009 - Central Saint Martins BA (Honours) Fine Art
June 2004 - Central Saint Martins, Diploma Foundation Studies in Art and Design with Merits
June 1991 - Graduated in Economics and Finance at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris ('Sciences-Po')
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. Amelie lives in London with her husband and three children.