Loulou Siem’s artistic practice centers around a distillation of raw, human experience, alchemy and magic, and a reassessment of value systems. Working chiefly in sculpture to create immersive spaces, the work finds its place between comic, tragic and always macabre to some degree. She is concerned with the mortality or immortality of the inanimate and how this relates to the authenticity of human experience.

Within Loulou Siem`s art, found still in its early beginnings, jewelry plays an important role, interweaving between multiple and fluid functions, from ritual object to archaeological evidence, from decorative appearance to symbolic significance.

Loulou Siem’s jewelry is not designed to decorate concrete hands or cleavages, but to open the doors of perception towards a time freed from the small history, a time of primordial creation effervescence, which, in a repetitive and infinite multiplied manner, is found in the woman’s ability of giving birth, but also that of the artist of imagining new realities. The rings with human faces or the small ceramic portraits are merely pretexts for meditation on the memory of the species, on the liberation from profane time, and simultaneously, on the profound understanding that man is, until proven otherwise, the measure of all things, in the absence of which all the universe is merely an amorphous quantum mass waiting for an observer.

Text by Dalina Bădescu