LAURENCE LE CONSTANT
Born in 1976 in Réunion, Laurence Le Constant developed a sculptural practice nourished by an early relationship with the landscapes, cultures, and stories of the Indian Ocean.
Her career, marked by numerous stays in southern Africa, Europe, and the United States, shaped her interest in mythologies, rites of passage, and symbolic systems from an early age.
Trained in the visual arts at Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne University and the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, she has developed a visual language at the crossroads of contemporary sculpture and the decorative arts.
With a background in textile design and haute couture, she has mastered techniques of finishing, featherwork, weaving, and embroidery, which she transposes into the field of sculpture.
Between 2000 and 2010, she collaborated with several haute couture houses, including Chanel, Dior, and Givenchy.
In 2010, she began the My Lovely Bones cycle, which became the central focus of her research. Through this body of work, she developed a visual reflection on memory, disappearance, and survival, using organic and symbolically charged materials such as feathers, bones, wood, and crystals to produce figures that are somewhere between portraits, relics, and contemporary sculptures.
Her work has been exhibited in France and internationally, notably in Paris, Tokyo, Osaka, Dallas, and San Francisco.
In 2012, the work Micheline entered the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Art.
Several works from the My Lovely Bones series have also been added to major private collections, including those of Lenny Kravitz (Augusta) and Sir Elton John (Frida).
In 2021, the Michelangelo Foundation selected Lat for its Homo Faber Guide and exhibited two of her works (Esther and Victorine) at the 2022 and 2024 editions of the Homo Faber Event at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice.
She presented two solo exhibitions at the Galerie Géraldine Banier in Paris:Her Garden (2014) and A Call To Heaven (2022) and participated in Art Paris in 2014 and 2015.
Alongside her artistic activity, Lt is involved in projects led by SOVERENCY, notably in response to the 2022 Call for Ideas for the redevelopment of the Clairvaux Abbey site.
This project, which ranked first in the pre-selection phase at the end of 2020, proposed the creation of a city structured around three poles cultural, ecological, and digital designed as a European platform for research, creation, and cooperation. It is in this context that she has been invited to speak at the French Senate in 2023, where she will present two works (Veda and Jacinthe) at a conference devoted to new models combining art, crafts, innovation, and industrial tools.
Laurence Le Constant is currently developing a practice in the field of contemporary sculpture, where exceptional skills are used as tools to question memory and identity.
The time taken to create imposes a space-time where life breaks free from cycles in an attempt to achieve transcendence.