RACHEL LABASTIE
NEWS
Diseuses du silence, Espace Monte-Cristo Paris, France – 18th of april au 13th of december 2026
Les énergies de la terre, Musée Kéramis (Centre de la Céramique), La Louvière, Belgium – openning on 26th of june at 6pm, until 1st of november 2026
Méditerranée, odysées contemporaines, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue – from 15th of may to 1st of november 2026
Parallèle(s), Abbaye d’Arthous, Hastingues, France – from 23th of May 2026 to 11th of october 2026.
Rachel Labastie (born in 1978), sculptor and performer, works with ceramics, weaving and many unusual materials such as raw clay, wicker and ashes. Her art is both deeply rooted in the material and very rich conceptually. Through her artistic practice, she pursues the search for a profound truth about humanity, sometimes buried under the weight of history and often under the artifice of our lives. Through a wide variety of worlds and materials, Rachel Labastie invites us to immerse ourselves in what connects humanity, in what connects us across time to our history and our nature.
Her work was the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium in 2021-2022. It has been shown at the Maison Rouge, the FRACs Auvergne, Hauts de France and Nouvelle Aquitaine (MECA), the Le Magasin d’art centre in Grenoble, the Huarte Art Centre in Spain, the TMAG in Hobart, Tasmania, the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, the Kéramis Museum in La Louvière (BE), the ICEC in Istanbul, the Château des Adhémar and the Château du Rivau, the Espace Doual’art in Cameroon, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Fondation Bernard Magrez, the Transpalette art centre, and more recently at the Centre d’art le Parvis in Tarbes, La Banque Béthune and the hortillonnages in Amiens. Recent monograph published by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Abbaye de Maubuisson, text by Michel Draguet.
