Artist Statement 

My interest lies in our relationship with nature and animals and how it has been dominated by artificial and controlled environments. Inspired by Natural history museums and zoos, my work is built on this feeling that things are not what they seem. I draw from the history of European landscape painting and its idealized vision of nature to create an appealing and seductive image in which things hide. My paintings are strange landscapes that let the spectator lose themselves in this illusory sense of peace and calm. Blurring the line between violence and pleasure; I question how these notions coexist.

 

Bio

Lola Lefrancios is a French NYC-based artist who grew up between France and India, where she lived in an experimental township called Auroville (Tamil Nadu).  She has been on several group and solo shows in New York City and France, most notably, “Fish don’t die with their eyes closed”, Solos Show, Compton Goethals Gallery, NY,(2023) ; “What we did last Summer”, Compton Goethals Gallery, NY, (2022); Les EVAsions des Arts, art festival, Villy en Auxois, France;. She has won prestigious scholarships; The Kenza scholarship from Foundation for the arts (France), the Connor Award and the Crous scholarship.

• Website:

  https://lolalefrancois.com/