THE LIBRARY

Ida Tursic, born in 1974 in Belgrade, Serbia. Wilfried Mille, born in 1974 in Boulogne-sur-mer, France. They both live and work in France.

"Tursic & Mille’s painting does not concern itself with subject matter or content; what it aspires to before anything else is to be an object. This object is, in fact, Painting." Eric Troncy, ‘Tursic & Mille : Decade’, Les Presses du réel, 2011.

Since they began collaborating as a duo in 2000, painters Tursic & Mille have been interrogating the contemporary overload of images and their relation with pictorial representation, questioning theirreproduction, circulation and disappearance. Taken out of movies, magazines, media and the enormousrepertory of data available on the internet, this boundless source of anonymous, preexisting material is usedup and transformed into paintings. With their landscapes, erotica, portraits and abstract compositions, Tursic& Mille blur pre-existing hierarchies between all kinds of images, aiming to go forward with the history and genre of painting as it exists in the 21st century.

Tursic & Mille have been nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2019.