Working collaboration between Lotty Adam and Luc Nonga
Luc Nonga and Lotty Adam's collaborative practice begins from a simple premise: no single perspective can account for the whole. Their work takes difference - of wealth, class, race, gender - as subject matter, worked through by exchanging lived experience of it. Beneath that difference lie shared values and a common encounter with Yalom's existential givens; death, freedom, isolation, meaninglessness. Theirs is a practice of exploring what difference means and how it is lived, situated within a particular socio-political and historical-cultural milieu.
A key concept that has emerged is otherness: how it is felt and experienced both emotionally and in the body, questioning how to tolerate it in oneself and the experience of meeting it in another. Beneath this runs a quieter inquiry into existential vulnerability; the fragility of feeling under a political and technological present that estranges as often as it connects, and into exploring what it means to feel at-home, to belong, and conversely to feel alienated and disconnected. The emotional experience of dancing between vulnerability and immunity, suffering and joy, and isolation and connection.
The work is made in relation. Nothing arrives pre-formed; it emerges through an evolving exchange between Luc, Lotty and the canvas, each painting a residue of that conversation. Lotty's practice is shaped by philosophy and her training as an existential-phenomenological therapist; Luc's by the raw immediacy of painters such as Basquiat. Together, they treat art-making as a way of connecting across difference without collapsing it.
Luc holds a BA and MA from City & Guilds School of Art, and has exhibited [details]. Lotty trained at City & Guilds and completed the Turps Banana painting programme.