Carole Louis
Artist
www.carole-louis.net
Carole Louis was born in 1985 in Germany, although she grew up in a small Walloon village. She landed in Brussels to study sculpture in the visual art school La Cambre and got her masters degree in 2008. In 2009 she had exhibitions in Poland and in Germany, showing sculptures only made of straws.
In 2012 she participated in a show in Eindhoven (Netherlands) about the end of the world. She started doing performances and making ceramics. In 2014, she dug a hole in the ground of a Brussels house to make clay bricks, and transformed the house into a cave. In 2017 she obtained a grant to study the history of an ancient Belgian social network, and she started learning internet coding. Since then, she is going back and forth between computer and clay, existentialism and ridicule.
Carole Louis plays on the absurd and the misunderstanding and reinvents in her practice a tragicomic world that constantly questions the relations of power, class, and economy. Her projects regularly run counter to the shackles imposed at all levels. The artist casts doubt in our mind and has fun distilling counterpoints to situations that seem determined to us, sometimes despite ourselves.
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