Carole Louis (1985 Köln, Germany) is an artist based in Brussels. She studied sculpture at the visual arts school “La Cambre” and completed her masters degree in 2008. She plays in her work 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 minds and has fun distilling counterpoints to situations that seem determined to us, sometimes despite ourselves.
Louis’ tragicomic universe aims to dissect the solidity of affirmative functions, whose indisputable evidence contributes to their invisibility. By exaggerating the literal of certain phenomena, or starting from an ingenuous point of view, she shows how any ideal of resolution is inevitably synonymous with paradoxes and constraints. In her artistic practice, she combines different media to produce a global context, which are often activated through performance.
📸 Cave in for later, Carole Louis, site specific performance, Biennial SACO 2021, Antofagasta, Chile.
