Trained as a set and lighting designer, Lauriane Cuello now develops an independent pictorial practice rooted in her initial disciplines. Under the title “spatial impressions,” she approaches drawing as a perceptual device capable of synthesizing a kinesthetic experience. Her multifaceted and chimerical proposals invite the viewer to negotiate their own position within a space oscillating between fascination and unease. The term “chimerical” here does not refer solely to fantasy, but to the coexistence of multiple potentialities: what is actually being looked at?
The artist constructs an iconography in which organic forms carry a latent expressiveness. She creates environments where the vegetal and the obscure intertwine, exploring zones of ambiguity between refuge and threat: a tree canopy can simultaneously shelter and, paradoxically, engulf. These nocturnal gardens appear as unstable territories where distinctions between interior and exterior, hospitality and danger, become blurred. Her intimate relationship with the performing arts leads her to rethink the body within these scenarios: first as a scale of measurement, then as a presence endowed with its own expressive charge. Hieratic figures and bestial postures form configurations of the body that can be amalgamated into the landscape.
