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b. 1986, HK.

artist portrait

visual artist based in Brussels & Paris

contact — loucv.pro@gmail.com

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SOLO SHOW :

06>07/2022 under the tall grass, RUIS, Nijmegen, NL

DUO SHOW w/ Telma LEMARCHAND :

09>10/2024 CARNE, Galerie La Glacière, Le Havre, FR

GROUP SHOWS :

12/2024>02/2025 Renarrative, CC Brugge, Bruges, BE

12/2024>03/2025 The Last Place They Thought Of, De Garage, Kunsthal Mechelen, Mechelen, BE

06/2024 Staircase Wit, MORPHO, Antwerp, BE

06>09/2024 Any Way the Wind Blows, C-Mine, Genk, BE

04/2024 MEMWA KREYOL, VOLTA XL, Brussels, BE

03/2024 Biennale Women In Arts, Espace Vanderborght, Brussels, BE

11/2023 Do You Care?, pop-up space Modus Operandi, Brussels, BE

06>07/2023 What’s Your Gray Zone, SEPTIEME Gallery, Paris, FR

27/04/2023 Garage Piscine, Recyclart, Brussels, BE

12/2022 >01/2023 De Nationale Expo, KMSKA, Antwerp, BE

01/12/2022 Museumnacht, S.M.A.K, Ghent, BE

11/2022 Salon Transplantation, Transplantation Library @ Union Jeunesse Internationale, Paris, FR

11 > 12/2022 NO IMAGES, The Constant Now, Antwerp, BE

10/2022 FREETOWN pt. 2, The Constant Now, Antwerp, BE

09>10/2022 DOMINO, Gilbard @ FACEB, Brussels, BE

03/09/2022 FREETOWN, Fire is Gold x S.M.A.K, Antwerp, BE

08/2022 Zomer in de Kloostertuin, Extra City, Antwerp, BE

06>07/2022 Royal Playground, Fondations 312, Brussels, BE

03/2022 Hands Up Festival, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, BE

02>03/2022 Mother(Land), Z33, Hasselt, BE

06/2021 La Cambre Graduation Show, Eleven Steens, Brussels, BE

04/2021 Habiter sous les reflets, Atoma, Brussels, BE

02/2020 WEDGE
La Cambre & Théâtre Molière, Brussels, BE

06/2019 Bachelor diploma show, Brussels, BE

08/2018 Assiettes Parlantes, Keramis Museum, La Louvière, BE

07/2018 CONGOVERPR!NT
04>09/2018 OVERPR!NT
Centre de la Gravure, La Louvière, BE

06/2018 Slow Dating, Quincaillerie des Temps Présents, Brussels, BE

04/2018 PRIOR Pieces, pop-up space, Ixelles, BE

01/2018 MORSURE, group performance, Tate Exchange, London, UK

12/2017 PRINTOUT, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, UK

10/2017 Artonov Festival, Maison Horta, Brussels, BE

05/2017 Specimen, Flagey, Brussels, BE

 

(EN)

Lou Cocody-Valentino is a multidisciplinary artist, who works mainly with screenprinting, painting, creating textile compositions and installations. She graduated in 2021 from a Printmaking Masters at La Cambre, Belgium. Her work is rooted in memories of her upbringing as an islander in Martinique, in the fragmentation of self she experiences as a multicultural being. Her creations stem from a process of reflection on color, composition, translucency. Having first studied classical printing techniques - focusing mostly on etching - Lou now experiments with recycled materials outside of the traditional realm ; working with melted plastics, printing shapes on fabrics, painting on wood panels, weaving upcycled yarns… A feeling of intimacy sets in between the artist and her materials, which all carry their own past, their particularities (their opacity, fluidity, softness…) and each tell a story. She aims to find an harmony between them, by using various techniques, such as natural dyeing, screenprinting, sewing, weaving. Her work aims to be a poetic archipelago, a porous place where each artwork responds to the next. All techniques, all assembled materials are used to question the idea of personal geography, more specifically the influence of territory and landscape on identity.

RESIDENCIES

2024 MORPHO, Antwerp, BE

2022 DOMINO, Gilbard @ FACEB, Brussels, BE

2022 POCPOC edition 1 @ The Constant Now, Antwerp, BE

2021 FLACC (now Jester), Genk, BE

SCENOGRAPHY :

upcoming : Spine of Desire by Stanley Ollivier

10/2024 WARP CRASH by Chaos Village @ PILAR

10/2023 TENDRESSE by FATSABBATS @ Kaaistudio’s

12/2022 TOTEM by FATSABBATS, Kaaistudio’s