Solène Kerlo's work can be understood as an initiatory journey. Elemental forms emerge in relief from her paintings, which use a mineral and earthy palette. They recount her meditative experiences, her path towards a more intuitive and wilder nature.

Through her pursuit of pure gesture and direct contact with matter, the artist applies her pigments by hand. It's a way of reconnecting with a meaning she perceives as too often forgotten.

Her work lies at the crossroads of mythology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. It questions modern man's relationship to his roots and his collective unconscious: “I am very influenced by the work of J. Campbell on the monomyth, of Carl Jung on the collective unconscious, of F. Descola on animism, for example. Through reading these authors, as well as my travels among vernacular peoples, I gather creation stories and try to extract the great universal symbols common to all humankind.”

For the exhibition "Primary Materials," Solène Kerlo created her first site-specific installation in the vestibule of Gate B, whose lime-washed walls were adorned with ancestral symbols. A sensory and immersive experience, Solène Kerlo's grotto plunges us into a forgotten time, a time when the sacred manifested itself in all elements of nature, the time of origins.