This monograph on French-Caribbean artist Lucas Erin offers the first occasion to encompass an artistic practice rooted in a multicultural exploration of encounters, human interaction and forms of resistance to social normalisation.
Published on the occasion of Lucas Erin's solo exhibition at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MCBA, September 2026–February 2027), edited and introduced by MCBA curator Nicole Schweizer, the publication includes two essays by researcher-lecturer, author, playwright and Black feminist cultural worker Noémi Michel and curator and head of the Institute Art Gender Nature at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
Chus Martínez, as well as an interview with Deborah-Joye Holman and contributions by Adama Keïta and Daisy Lambert.
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.
Edited by Nicole Schweizer.
Texts by Adama Keïta, Daisy Lambert,
Chus Martínez, Noémi Michel, Nicole Schweizer; interview with the artist by Deborah-Joyce Holman.
2026 (publication expected by 3rd quarter)
bilingual edition (English / French)
ISBN : 978-2-940027-97-2
EAN : 9782940027972
forthcoming
