Arts at CERN

Masduraud’s body of work creates phantasmagorical worlds which are alternatives to dominant realities

Lou Masduraud (b. 1990) lives and works in Geneva. In her work, she analyses, modifies and stages collective and normative habits in such a way as to expose the relations of power and desire that underlie them. Combining sculpture and installations in her formal language that borrows from the grotesque, the artist creates phantasmagorical worlds which are alternatives to dominant realities. Her practice performs the transformation of the everyday and depict its transfiguration as an initial form of emancipation. For a few years now, she has been working simultaneously on 3 mains ongoing projects: a critical research on public fountains as a political object, an evolutionary project of constrained antispeciesist anatomies and a series of hand crafted basement windows.

In 2024, Maduraud was selected for the Connect India residency together with Shailesh BR.