Welcome to
Luckyland

<sub>Bachelor project 2024
Royal Danish Academy

Exhibited at :
    Bornholm's Centre for Arts and Crafts.
     Hasle 3790 - Denmark
    Glas, Museet for glaskunst.
     Ebeltoft 8400 - Denmark</sub>





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With delicate intentions of expressin his very precious relationship with superstition, Lartigue Nathan is using the glass qualities combined with his appetite for sculpted glass to invite you to Luckyland, his kingdom of luck Inspired by the venetian tradition, Lartigue Nathan´s chandelier is offering you a place to discuss freely about your own relation to superstition and symbols. Be welcome to Luckyland.






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"With this new approach towards chandeliers, I had the great want of taking my try making one I could play with by adding elements dealing with the superstition & luck. I imagined a chandelier that would not include any lights at the end of its branches, but symbols of luck. The point is to propose an art piece that would create a place for the reflexion about the place of the superstition in our society."

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Since childhood times, I have loved curious, unknown, mysterious objects and symbols linked to the field of spirituality. In my work, I almost always let the influence of these ethnological details from civilisations’ thoughts and beliefs get a place in my artistic creative process.

Then, for my last project at the academy, I chose to work with people’s beliefs once more. This time through the superstition prism and the notion of the luck.

Any non-superstitious person can possibly describe trusting superstitions as an act of folklore or a «lower-religion» because of its lack of structure in the current society (at least in the West). This low consideration is leading some supertitous people to feel less comfortable sharing their beliefs or feeling judged/laughed at due to the global History of superstitious people being discriminated for their singular thoughts.

By being superstitious myself, I wanted to express a different sensible and surprising glance on different elements of the notion of luck through glass pieces.
I wished to share a new view on the luck and its symbols thanks to iconographies representing the «luck», «the fortune» into an art piece that would be use as a communication medium to help me sharing my vision of it, as a catharsis.