BIO

Loucia Carlier is a French artist and editor, born in 1992 in Paris. She graduated with a Master’s in Visual Arts – European Art Ensemble from the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne in 2017. She was awarded the Révélation Émerige grant in 2020, was a resident at Villa Belleville in 2023, and is currently in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Images, symbols, objects, and texts are assembled through embossing, printing, and modeling on the surface of her works, blending sculpture and painting. These compositions form hybrid landscapes of a post-humanity undergoing reorganization. A network of archetypal images and organic elements swell and work from within each of her pieces, where the possibility of a subjective, relative, and resilient cosmology opens up through ruptures. The interdependence of the body and environment is not necessarily the most uplifting in the era of capitalism, patriarchy, and ecological crisis; her work tells the underlying anxieties of a generation born in the 90s. Caves, parts of bodies, architectures mixed with medical, ufological, or psychedelic imagery are printed and sculpted onto the surface of her pieces. Sometimes enhanced with makeup, her works act as a second skin: reactive to external aggressions and internal inflammations that one struggles to hide. Her work is regularly featured in solo and group exhibitions (Le Nouveau Printemps in Toulouse, CAC Brétigny, Salon de Montrouge, Villa Belleville, Swiss Art Awards, Ateliers de la Ville de Marseille, Forde, Contemporary Art Center of Geneva, Villa Noailles, Villa Emerige, High Art, Ferme de la Chapelle, Wallriss, Hamlet Zurich, Art:Concept, Artgenève, Museum of Fine Arts of Lausanne…). In parallel to her artistic practice, she has co-directed the independent magazine Klima since 2018. Dedicated to the intersection of contemporary artistic creation, academic research, social sciences, politics, and activist knowledge, the magazine also develops through launches, study days, literary salons, exhibitions, and fairs (Voiture 14, Artorama Fair in Marseille, Octobre Numérique in Arles, Paris Internationale Fair, Salon de Normandy in Paris, Liste in Basel, Art Geneva Fair, Offprint Paris/London, The Salon Nada & The Community in Paris, Forde Geneva…).