Déconstruire n°1, 2023

Ludovic Nino  

Ludovic Nino is a contemporary artist born in Paris in 1990. Born into a family originally from the countryside of Saint-Marie in Martinique, he was raised between the metropole and the Creole stories transmitted by his father, which deeply influenced his artistic vision. Graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris, he won third prize for contemporary drawing from the Cabinet des amateurs de dessin des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2019.

His work explores the remnants of colonialism, issues of memory, resistance and cultural metissage in compositions combining minerals and plants, highlighting historical layers and tensions between nature and human construction. Nino is particularly attracted to wastelands, ruins, and marginal spaces, which he sees as places of struggle and reappropriation by nature and marginalized cultures. His works, often created with ink or paint, evoke landscapes steeped in history, where Caribbean, Japanese, and Taiwanese heritages meet.

In 2023, he participated in an artist residency in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, at the Kio-A-Thau Art Village, where he developed a series of works inspired by Taiwanese landscapes, Japanese colonial ruins, and native vegetation, particularly banyan and flamboyant trees.
This residency allows him to explore his views on cycles of construction and destruction, as well as the resilience of cultures in the context of colonial history. His recent creations, such as the series “Présence" (2024-2025), illustrate this confrontation between abandoned architecture and invasive nature, symbolizing the metamorphosis of identities and territories.

Ludovic Nino has presented his work in several group and solo exhibitions in France and abroad, notably at the Salon de Montrouge in 2025, the Fondation Clément in Martinique, and during the Kio-A-Thau residency in Taiwan.
His artistic approach, combining poetry and politics, questions the traces of the past and the possible reinventions of spaces and memories.