Untitled, from the series Bouche, 2023

Lucile Boiron, born in 1990, lives and works in Paris. Her photographs and installations bring us face-to-face with the painful intimacy of living decay. From bodily fragments to indeterminate still lifes, she isolates her subjects with surgical precision. The skin breaks free from its traditional functions to mutate into a
place of passage and multiple transfigurations, building bridges between different materialities where the interior of things blends with the physical world around them.

In 2019, she won the Libraryman Award for her project “Womb,” which was later published as a book. The series, “Mise en pièce,” contrasts images shot in a cosmetic surgery operating room with self-portraits Lucile took during the 2020 lockdown. The close-up, fragmented nature of the images erases any notion of individuality, resulting in a series that is both liberating and grotesque—a simple reminder of what it means to be alive.