Louise Covillas
"You know, you have this romantic idea of nature, like in Caspar David Friedrich's painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, where the human stands alone, facing nature. But in reality, you’re never alone in nature; it's buzzing with life.”
— EXCERPT FROM INTERVIEW (30.01.25)
Louise Covillas is a French artist whose practice centers on collecting—objects, traces, and overlooked fragments—engaging deeply with sustainability and our coexistence with the natural world. Having studied in Lisbon, Brussels, and Paris, she developed an instinctive, tactile approach to sculpture, reassembling found materials like snakeskins, cicada shells, and crystallized bones to highlight nature’s delicate balance.
Her work is an act of preservation and awareness, inspired by thinkers like Marielle Massé and Ursula K. Le Guin. She embraces a non-hierarchical creative process, where intuition and collaboration guide her approach. This is reflected in Till We Bloom, a collective exhibition challenging solitary artistic production.
With a sensitivity to material and space, her understated yet tactile sculptures invite viewers to reconsider their relationship with the environment, revealing the quiet traces of life that often go unnoticed.