Tears of volcano Solène Kerlo

Solène Kerlo's work is a quest for origins: it questions modern human beings' relationship with their roots and their mythological unconscious. Through her research, she explores the world's creation myths, their motifs and symbols, in order to bring to light the primordial and universal story that cradled and shaped human civilisation at the earliest stages of the development of its consciousness.

Her art is an invitation to relive the time of our origins: a time when we were still lulled by the song of symbols and the poetry of the imagination, a time when the sacred manifested itself in each of nature's phenomena, an ancestral time that continues to inhabit our unconscious and our bodies.

The mythological soul resonates anew. Her works are an echo of this. Bordering on abstraction, the artist's paintings and sculptures invite long meditation. Her latest series explores funerary rites and the concept of death in mythology.

After exploring the myth of Emergence and the primordial birth of human being with her ‘Seed of civilization’ series, Solène Kerlo wanted to explore the myth of the Fall and the arrival of mortality among mankind in this new series.