“Sensitive to meteorological variations, I pay particular attention to the way light reshapes a space as details appear and disappear. It is from this impermanence in the landscape that my interest in representing it arises. Through photography, video and drawing, I capture what makes the places I explore unique at a given moment in time. This leads me to a visual exploration that I extend into my textile and sculptural work. This leads me to a visual exploration that I extend into my textile and sculptural work. A form of duality then emerges from these encounters between materials, crafts and natural phenomena. In weaving and welding, I find gestures similar to geological processes, which I transpose to the point of losing scale and moving towards abstraction – from a pattern towards a new spatiality. My intention is not to freeze the landscape in time, but rather to convey the richness of its instability through a reinvention of its representation. Therefore, my work seeks to explore how artistic practices can rely on scientific knowledge to renew our perception and our attention to changing territories.”
Visual artist engaged in a multidisciplinary practice, Chloé Poey-Lafrance pursues a body of work informed by the dynamics of the landscape – from its natural formation to its human-induced transformation – borrowing techniques from conservation and restoration, the arts and crafts, and the building trades. She graduated from Aix-en-Provence School of Art in 2022. Since then, her work has been featured in several group exhibitions, notably in France at the Mac Arteum in Châteauneuf-le-Rouge, the Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence, the Château de Servières and at Jeanne Barret in Marseille. She has also been awarded residencies by the Nouveau Grand Tour, the Réserve des arts Méditerranée and Miramar. In 2025, she was awarded the Mécènes du Sud research and creation grant for her project The foreshore, a punched card. At the same time, she presents her first solo exhibition at Galerie G in La Garde. During 2026, she will be in residence at the Villa Belleville studios in Paris.
