{"title":"Solène Kerlo","description":"\u003cp\u003eSolène Kerlo is a French visual artist based in Paris and Bordeaux whose work moves between painting, sculpture, and installation. She works with living materials — beeswax, earth pigments, brass, crystallized salt — to reactivate primordial gestures and open a dialogue between the sacred and ecology. Using very few tools, and often making them herself, she works directly with her hands in an instinctive, sensory approach where touch is central. Red ochre has been present from the beginning, carrying associations with earth, fire, blood, and transformation. Her pieces evoke the earliest acts of representation, when humans first inscribed forms onto cave walls, and stand as contemporary relics exploring birth, memory, and lost civilizations. Trained in fashion design at Esmod Paris and in lost-wax casting at École Boulle, she draws on mythology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, and casts some of her metal works with Burkinabé master founder Alassane Dermé.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fragment-astral-iv","title":"Fragments Astraux","description":"\u003cp\u003eFragment Astral I - IV is a series of small votive brass plaques conceived as mineral fragments, ritual tablets, or remnants of an unknown celestial language. Their uneven surface evokes erosion, pressure, fire, and excavation. The work can be read as a contemporary relic: neither decorative nor purely sculptural, but situated between object, sign, and offering. Through this series, Solène Kerlo explores the idea of the plaque as a carrier of memory: a surface where matter seems to have recorded the trace of an ancient gesture, a vanished myth, or a buried constellation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Solène Kerlo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265129435215,"sku":null,"price":3400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/6413\/9343\/files\/1Q9A9208.jpg?v=1789054416"},{"product_id":"hostie-funeraire","title":"Hostie Funéraire","description":"\u003cp\u003eHostie Funéraire belongs to Solène Kerlo's ongoing research into votive forms, prehistoric signs, and the symbolic power of objects placed between the body, the sacred, and the earth. Cast in recycled brass, the work reworks the form of a ritual host, shifting it from an object of offering and communion into a funerary relic: an offering shaped around absence, memory, and burial. Held upright on its base, the circular form evokes an archaic sun, a burial marker, an altar object, or a fragment exhumed from a lost ceremony. Its irregular surface carries the memory of the hand, the mold, and the fire, preserving the tension between devotion, erosion, and apparition. The piece is conceived as a contemporary ritual object, at once mineral, symbolic, and silent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Solène Kerlo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265129500751,"sku":null,"price":3200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/6413\/9343\/files\/1Q9A9456.jpg?v=1789054333"},{"product_id":"elixir","title":"Elixir","description":"\u003cp\u003eElixir is a suspended sign, somewhere between a ritual object, and an archaic emblem. Its bird-like form recalls Solène Kerlo's recurring vocabulary of winged symbols, cross-forms, and protective ornaments. Cast in recycled brass, the sculpture appears as a relic of transformation: a fragment that could have belonged to a body, a ceremony, or a forgotten cosmology. The work extends the artist's research into adornment as a silent language: a sign worn, carried, or offered, through which matter becomes both symbol and transmission.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Solène Kerlo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46274214592591,"sku":null,"price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/6413\/9343\/files\/1Q9A9315.jpg?v=1789054416"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/6413\/9343\/collections\/solene-kerlo_05.jpg?v=1789439323","url":"https:\/\/lsdgallery.com\/collections\/solene-kerlo.oembed","provider":"LSD Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}