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Carla Gueye, Les silencieuses (The Silent Ones), 2026
Carla Gueye, Les silencieuses (The Silent Ones), 2026
Carla Gueye, Les silencieuses (The Silent Ones), 2026 View of the exhibition Mémoire Matérielle curated by Azu Nwagbogu and Nkhensani Mkhari at 193 Gallery, Paris

Carla Gueye France, 1997

Les silencieuses (The Silent Ones), 2026
Lime, natural pigment, metal
68 x 42 x 19 cm
26 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 7 1/2 in
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In Carla Gueye’s work, the body and its memory do not exist in isolation. The vegetal world, matter, and architecture become structures capable of containing and protecting. Bodily forms rise...
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In Carla Gueye’s work, the body and its memory do not exist in isolation. The vegetal world, matter, and architecture become structures capable of containing and protecting. Bodily forms rise up bearing the traces of what has shaped them. The motif of protrusion, which recurs throughout her visual vocabulary, belongs to this same logic: it emerges from the surface like an imprint, a growth, or the visible manifestation of a buried history.

The sculpture Les silencieuses (The Silent Ones) depicts a plant-like form whose leaves are punctuated with mouths. Both an organ of speech and an opening, the mouth symbolizes the transmission of the intangible. Associated with plant life, it also evokes fertility: like a seed, speech can be sown and passed on.

Carla Gueye creates her sculptures using lime, drawing on expertise passed down from her father. Traditionally used to coat and protect the walls of houses in the Charente region, where she grew up, lime evokes the home and the body in equal measure. The sculptures are then covered with a dark, earth-toned patina, creating a skin across their surfaces that retains the traces of the artist’s hand. Matter itself thus becomes a vehicle for memory.


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Chez Carla Gueye, le corps et sa mémoire ne sont pas isolés. Le végétal, la matière et l’architecture deviennent autant de structures capables de contenir et de protéger. Ainsi, les formes corporelles s’érigent en portant les traces de ce qui les a façonnées. Le motif de la proéminence, récurrent dans son vocabulaire, participe de cette logique : il fait saillie à la surface comme une empreinte, une croissance ou la manifestation visible d’une histoire enfouie.

La sculpture Les silencieuses représente une forme végétale dont les feuilles sont ponctuées de bouches. Organe de la parole autant qu’orifice, la bouche symbolise la transmission immatérielle. Associée au végétal, elle évoque également la fertilité : comme une graine, la parole peut être déposée, transmise.

Carla Gueye travaille ses sculptures à la chaux, selon un savoir-faire hérité de son père. Traditionnellement employée pour enduire et protéger les murs des maisons charentaises, dans la région où elle a grandi, la chaux évoque autant l’habitat que le corps. Les sculptures sont ensuite recouvertes d’une patine aux tonalités sombres et terreuses, qui forme à leur surface une peau conservant les traces du geste. La matière devient ainsi elle-même un vecteur de mémoire.

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