After graduating from Gobelins in 2022, Lou pursued a career in photography and cinema, where she made her debut as a director and cinematographer.
Initially a jack-of-all-trades, she soon specialised in photography, her favourite medium since childhood. Over time, some of her images began to move, while others remained still.
Coming from a family where psychoanalysis and psychiatry are omnipresent, they play a fundamental role in her work. Drenched in black humour and colourful absurdity, her work deals with recurring themes that reflect the prism through which she perceives the world: bodies are jostled or cradled by sexuality, food and madness. Between dream and nightmare, sweet and sour, liquid and solid, poetic and cynical... Lou plays with contrasts, trying to highlight what she sees in photography: an art that whispers the answers we have been looking for and shouts out the things we wanted to keep silent.
Initially a jack-of-all-trades, she soon specialised in photography, her favourite medium since childhood. Over time, some of her images began to move, while others remained still.
Coming from a family where psychoanalysis and psychiatry are omnipresent, they play a fundamental role in her work. Drenched in black humour and colourful absurdity, her work deals with recurring themes that reflect the prism through which she perceives the world: bodies are jostled or cradled by sexuality, food and madness. Between dream and nightmare, sweet and sour, liquid and solid, poetic and cynical... Lou plays with contrasts, trying to highlight what she sees in photography: an art that whispers the answers we have been looking for and shouts out the things we wanted to keep silent.
Diplômée de Gobelins en 2022, Lou poursuit une carrière à cheval entre la photographie et le cinéma, où elle fait ses débuts en tant que réalisatrice et cheffe opératrice.
D’abord touche-à-tout, elle se spécialise rapidement en photographie, son médium de prédilection depuis l’enfance. Puis au fil du temps, certaines de ses images commencent à bouger, tandis que d’autres restent immobiles.
Issue d’une famille où psychanalyse et psychiatrie sont omniprésentes, celles-ci occupent une place fondamentale dans son travail. Teintés d’humour noir et d’absurde aux couleurs vives, ses travaux traitent de thématiques récurrentes, représentatives du prisme à travers lequel elle perçoit le monde : les corps y sont tour à tour bousculés ou bercés par la sexualité, la nourriture et la folie. Entre rêve et cauchemar, doux et acide, liquide et solide, poétique et cynique… Lou joue sur les rapports de contraste, et cherche ainsi à mettre en avant ce qu’est la photographie selon elle : un art qui chuchote des réponses qu’on cherchait, et crie des choses qu’on voulait rester silencieuses.
photo : Nathan Jungfer
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