LAURENCE LE CONSTANT
Laurence Le Constant is a French artist born on Réunion Island in 1976.
Her work unfolds around the themes of metamorphosis, memory and transmission through sculptures where exceptional craftsmanship, ancient mythologies and symbolic narratives converge. Hybrid figures, animal presences and feminine archetypes map a sensitive terrain of relationships between the living world, myth and memory.
Feathers, bones, wood, crystals and semi-precious stones become the elements of a visual language situated at the crossroads of contemporary sculpture, ritual and mythological storytelling.
Trained in Fine Arts at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and later at the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, she developed a multidisciplinary practice nourished by drawing, haute couture, featherwork, weaving and textile embellishment techniques. Between 2000 and 2010, she collaborated with several leading fashion houses, including Chanel, Dior and Givenchy.
In 2010, she initiated My Lovely Bones, a body of sculptural work that has since become the core of her artistic research. Through this ongoing series, she develops a reflection on individual and collective memory, creating figures situated at the threshold between the living, myth and metamorphosis.
Laurence Le Constant’s work has been exhibited in France and internationally, notably in Paris, Venice, Tokyo, Osaka, San Francisco and Dallas. Her works are held in the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Art as well as in several international private collections, including those of Sir Elton John and Lenny Kravitz.
Selected by the Michelangelo Foundation for the Homo Faber Guide, she participated in the 2022 and 2024 editions of the Homo Faber Event at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice.
In 2023, she was invited to speak at the French Senate during the conference Emerging Factors Behind New French Champions Combining Art, Craftsmanship, Innovation and New Industrial Tools. Organized by SOVERENCY, this event, dedicated to the relationship between creation, innovation and advanced industries, also featured two works from My Lovely Bones: Jacinthe and Isha.
Between the visible and the invisible, artisanal gesture and mythological narrative, her works give form to a universe where humans, animals and archetypal figures converge.
It is within this interstice, suspended between ether and materia prima, that her creations seek to attain a form of transcendence.