Lou Fauroux, b. 1998, Mulhouse, lives in Saint-Ouen, works in Saint Denis.

Lou Fauroux made her first moving images from videos produced by the adult film industry in Los Angeles. She studied at the ECAL and graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2022. Using video, sculpture, installation and 3D, she fluidly interrogates the ethical issues surrounding artificial intelligence and the influence of technology on humans, looking to decipher the social structures of power through pop culture and through media including music and video games. Incorporating her queer experience into multiple layers of narrative and representation, she poetically re-appropriates the images she grew up with to construct new mythologies.

Raised on blogs, Tumblr and The Sims, Lou Fauroux’s education in images is strongly marked by the digital culture of the 1990s. She has an equally keen awareness of the blind spots of this Web 2.0 culture, whose emancipatory potential has been perhaps to readily assumed by her post-Internet elders. While in the 2010s social networks promised to liberate society from dominant power structures and dissolve gender inequalities into the ether, Lou Fauroux’s position responds to the current decade, driven by the conviction that fluidity is not inscribed in technological systems but must instead be conquered by force. What she proposes is a direct and poetic attack on GAFAM (Google Apple Facebook Amazon Microsoft), one led by gangs of queer hackers determined to overturn big tech’s monopolies.

She is invited to participate at the Friche du Palais de Tokyo from October 7 to December 20, 2024.