Biography
Imagine semi-naked boys wrapped in clay and plastic, gyrating to a soundtrack of industrial thumps and bleeps in front of a live audience - and you get a taster of one of the surreal worlds created by singer, songwriter and artist Le Fil.
Le Fil is a new male British-Chinese artist that makes music and combines it with sculpture, performance and art. He excites audiences with visionary live spectacles, striking films and conceptual provocative pop, which he calls ‘Pop Sculptures’. Le Fil’s songs like ‘Panther’, ‘Black’ and ‘Future Is Now’ fuses together industrial-electronic beats, experimental-pop vocals, powerful lyrics and hooks that embed themselves in your brain.
Originally from Huddersfield, Le Fil moved to London to study at Camberwell College of Arts where he experimented with art, sculpture and music to create new ways of seeing gender, sexuality and identity. Le Fil made clay-sculptures and body-sculptures, and now he is using Pop Music as his sculptor’s material and calling them ‘Pop Sculptures’. The name Le Fil is an abbreviated version of the Fil’s birth name, whilst playfully referring to his androgyny through the French masculine appropriation of the term ‘the girl’ (la fille). Translated in French, Le Fil means ‘the thread’ which Fil has taken to symbolise a continuing thread; or a single train of thought that connects many ideas and disciplines.
Le Fil’s work has appeared in Dazed & Confused, i-D and Wallpaper* magazine and has been commissioned to make body-sculptures by Lady Gaga and English National Ballet. Previous exhibitions and selected performances include live shows at Royal Vauxhall Tavern, The Alibi and The Sassoon Gallery (2013); Pop Sculpture: The Filosophy of Making at Camberwell Space (2012); Germination: The Avant-Garden Body-Sculptures with LuckyPDF at The Barbican (2011).
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