From August 28, 2026, to February 14, 2027, the artist and ECAL Fine Arts Master graduate Lucas Erin will present the exhibition La ronde in the Espace Projet at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MCBA).
For his first institutional exhibition, Lucas Erin , laureate of the 2026 Manor Vaud Culture Prize, specifically designed the exhibition La ronde for the MCBA’s Espace Projet. In this exhibition, the artist presents a body of work centered on the concept of the garden, exploring its transformations across seasons and latitudes, as well as the effects of human action and history upon nature.
This project furthers his work in installation, sculpture, and sound, and is part of recent research on the Creole garden and forms of collective life. Inspired by thinkers of creolization, Lucas Erin explores colonial history and its ramifications in contemporary reality and imagination through works that revisit his Martinican heritage by considering his connection to the land and the plants that grow there. The materials used in the creation of these works — such as bronze, burnt sand, and cable sheaths — convey and condense questions of temporality and circulation, whether between states of matter, places, or eras. Working by associations, reappropriations, and shifts, the artist explores the relationships between interior and exterior, as well as the moving boundary that separates them, in order to allow new possibilities to emerge within the exhibition space.
His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions and several solo shows, both in Switzerland and France, notably at All Stars (Lausanne, 2021), La Salle de bains (Lyon, 2024) and di volta in volta (Paris, 2024). After completing his Fine Arts Master's degree at ECAL in 2016, Lucas Erin spent several years exploring the collective dimensions of his practice, for example as co-founder of the Happy Baby Gallery (Lausanne), member of the team at La Colonie (Paris), and collaborator on various curatorial projects. He is also the recipient of the Leenaards Foundation's Cultural Grant (2022).
Canton Suisse, Man Enmen’w, 2008
Sculpture by Richard Fidelin at « Petite Suisse », Morne-Vert, Martinique
Photo ©Lucas Erin, 2026