Loucia Carlier (FR, 1992)
Residency period: July 2025
During my EXECAL residency, I continued exploring the materiality of images and the representation of space through canvases with ambiguous textures, refining how surfaces shape perception. Positioned between painting, object, and image, these works reconstruct miniaturized interiors from intimate fragments that echo daily life. The residency became a recurring motif, as the apartment, everyday gestures, and encounters gradually infiltrated the work and informed its atmosphere.
Through self-portraiture, I blurred the boundaries between subject and setting, crafting visual narratives in which domestic space turned into a fictional site that is at once familiar, disorienting, and quietly charged.
At La Becque, the notion of the miniature was central to my research. Miniatures are not only objects of reverie but also tools of possession and manipulation. Through toys like dollhouses or play kitchen sets, children learn to grasp the world and reproduce adult gestures and social structures, revealing subtle forms of cultural conditioning and embedded power relations.
In my practice, the miniature becomes a space of projection, care, and resistance, where fragile everyday materials carry transformative potential. This reflection draws on Gaston Bachelard’s “intimate immensity,” in which small spaces contain vast inner worlds, and echoes Silvia Federici’s feminist view of the domestic sphere as both a site of constraint and a place for collective reinvention. — Loucia Carlier
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.