Lauriane Yougang’s studio becomes a sacred space where creation is guided by music and intuition. Each gesture, each work, results from a dialogue between instinct and reflection, between cultural grounding and freedom of expression. The artist explores the female condition in its multiple dimensions, connecting it to spiritual, symbolic, and cosmic forces. The beaded terracotta busts, which form a large part of the exhibition, are hybrid works where tradition meets contemporary forms. These busts, made with the participation of her family in stringing the beads, embody intergenerational transmission. They represent beloved deceased figures, guardian spirits, silent presences that inhabit the artist’s imagination.

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Light plays a central role in this approach. It is used not only as a visual element but also as a metaphor for memory: a light that persists beyond absence, like the light of extinct stars whose radiance still reaches us. Each sculpture thus becomes a memorial lantern, a bridge between the living and the dead, between what was and what remains.

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In Lauriane’s paintings, acrylic is the medium of experimentation and rewriting. Through successive layers, she builds circular compositions, contemporary mandalas expressing continuity, a return to origins, and the multiplicity of identities. These recurring forms carry meanings: they refer to life cycles, fertility, and inner strength. They also structure the pictorial space and visual narrative, acting as temporal and cosmic markers.

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Animal symbolism also runs through her work. Lauriane invokes figures such as the bird, butterfly, and bee to express freedom, transformation, and the endurance of women. The chameleon becomes the image of feminine complexity, its ability to adapt and transform. These representations enrich the artist’s visual grammar, developing a plastic language that questions the intimate and social realities of femininity.

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Constellation is thus an exhibition where each work, each material, and each form contributes to a broader reflection on belonging, lineage, disappearance, and resilience. Lauriane Yougang offers an art of memory and reconciliation, where past and present coexist, dialogue, and illuminate each other. By invoking imagination, material, and symbol, she creates a poetic and critical space where art becomes a language in itself— a tool for transmission, reinvention, and healing.