LOU MASDURAUD

Lou Masduraud (born in 1990 in Montpellier) lives and works between Geneva and Sète. In her work, she analyzes, alters, and stages collective and normative habits in order to highlight the underlying relations of power and desire. Combining conceptual sculpture, installations, and craft, the artist creates phantasmagorical worlds that offer alternatives to dominant realities. Her practice transforms the everyday and portrays its transfiguration as an initial form of emancipation.

Fountains, basement windows, and streetlamps are among the recurring forms mobilized by Lou Masduraud as motifs drawn from public space and architecture, which she diverts and reconfigures. Above all, she seeks to hybridize their nature, redefining them as threshold-spaces oscillating between interior and exterior. Her works draw from architecture, infrastructure, and sculpture alike, blurring the boundaries between function and ornament and tracing a continuum between the social and the intimate spheres. Lou Masduraud is committed to representing spaces that escape the norm—whether through deviation, hybridization, forms of withdrawal, or, conversely, normative excess.