In his essay on contemporary art, the philosopher Jean-Paul Curnier notes: « The question of freedom in art isn’t asked in formal terms, but rather in terms of complacency and a political alliance, or the lack thereof, to a dominant cultural mode, whichever it may be ». Refusing to comply with the peremptory renewal of forms, reflective of an unconditional submission to the laws of the market, Michelle Lopez has been pursuing for years now a double exploration. On one hand she keeps on questioning what still lies at the root of the sculptural act, while inscribing these interrogations in a broader process that we could analyze Lopez as a critic towards the dead-end of Western thought - not to say American.
