Loucia Carlier (FR, 1992)
Residency period: July 2025
A 2017 graduate of the Master Visual Arts – European Art Ensemble at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, French artist and publisher Loucia Carlier (born in 1992) creates hybrid works between sculpture and painting, featuring images, symbols, and objects that are intertwined using embossing, printing, and modeling techniques. These compositions evoke a changing world, marked by the interdependence of body and environment, reflecting the anxieties of a generation born in the 1990s. Inspired by organic elements as well as medical, ufological, and psychedelic references, her works unfold like a second skin, reactive to the tensions of the contemporary world, including issues such as capitalism, patriarchy, and climate change.
Her work has featured regularly in solo and group exhibitions (Le Nouveau Printemps de Toulouse, CAC Brétigny, Salon de Montrouge, Villa Belleville, Swiss Art Awards, Ateliers de la Ville de Marseille, Forde, Centre d’art contemporain de Genève, Villa Noailles, Villa Emerige, High Art, Ferme de la Chapelle, Wallriss, Hamlet Zurich, Art:Concept, Artgenève, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, etc.). Alongside her artistic practice, since 2018 she has been co-editor of the independent magazine Klima, which focuses on contemporary artistic creation, academic research, social sciences, politics, and activist knowledge.
Having worked in an underground studio for the past two years, Carlier will use her EXECAL residency to pursue her research into hidden living spaces and notions of surface and depth, whether architectural, organic, or mental. Envisioning the space of her apartment at La Becque as a refuge, Carlier will aim to metamorphose her workplace by projecting it into another dimension, thanks to a space-altering, in-situ installation project, featuring plays on light.