Solène Kerlo

Trained in fashion design at Esmod Paris and in lost-wax casting at the École Boulle, Solène Kerlo has developed a sculptural and pictorial practice informed by her background in both craftsmanship and contemporary art.

Her work explores founding myths and the memory of civilizations through sculptures in brass, wax, or crystallized salt, and paintings with earth pigments, reactivating ancestral gestures to question the place of the sacred today. Contemporary relics and imagined vestiges compose a visual language at the crossroads of archaeology and ritual.

From 2022 to 2025, her project SALAR, supported by the French Institute in Chile, constitutes a vast cosmogony of the Atacama Desert, encompassing sculpture, performance, and film. Presented at Nuit Blanche 2025 and then during his solo exhibition at Galerie Porte B, this cycle continues with the upcoming release of his short film and an artist's book that will synthesize four years of research around the mythology of water and the desert.