Lucas Erin

Lucas Erin (born 1990) is a Franco-Caribbean artist based in Lausanne whose practice isrooted in a multicultural exploration of encounters, human interaction and forms of resistance to social normalisation. Interested in the notion of contact, of which objects are the trace, attentive to the relationship between interior and exterior and the shifting boundary that separates them, Erin explores, through concise gestures, what happens or fails in an exchange. Questions of circulation and sharing lie at the heart of his thinking. His found objects and carefully crafted sculptures contain both the threads of interwoven stories and hints of narratives in the making. Inspired by thinkers of creolisation, revisiting his Martinican heritage through the prism of his connection to the land and the plants that grow there, the artist works through associations, reappropriations, and shifts that allow new possibilities to emerge in the exhibition space.