Theo Guicheron-Lopez
Theo Guicheron-Lopez is a French artist and writer based in Poland. His sculptural practice explores our physical and psychic relationships to the ground, with a particular focus on artificial surfaces that structure contemporary life yet are often met with indifference. Working primarily with wood, stone, and metal, Guicheron-Lopez creates installations and sculptures that expose the contradictions within materials typically seen as inert or utilitarian. For him, the ground is never neutral—it holds traces of displacement, imagination, and projected desire, making it a site of fantasy, memory, and spatial longing.
Since 2019, Guicheron-Lopez has been investigating the speculative connections between Arles (France) and Córdoba (Andalusia) in the early eighth century. This transhistorical project uses soil and urban debris from these cities to create works that meditate on longing, fragmentation, and the imagined architectures of belonging. Rather than reconstructing these cities, his work evokes the emotional and material residues they leave behind.
Before turning to sculpture in 2018, Guicheron-Lopez wrote poetry, narrative texts, and short fiction—an ongoing literary practice that continues to inform his approach to materiality, embodiment, and spatial poetics. His bilingual poetry collection Sol Lande (2023) expresses the desire to locate the self in language while resisting fixity or translation. For Guicheron-Lopez, writing remains a companion to his sculptural work, providing a way to voice what material alone cannot and to place emotional weight on overlooked surfaces.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions:
- Name That No Longer Crack – Iron House, Nymphenburg Castle, Munich (2024)
- If It Was Only Tree Points – Galerie Paul Scherzer, Halle Saale (2024)
- The Needle Capsule For The Key – Büro für Projektkultur, Halle Saale (2024)
Group exhibitions:
- Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg (2025)
- Centrum of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko (2023)
- Festival Été Indien, Arles (2022)
Other
Literary work: Poetry, narrative texts, short fiction; publication of the bilingual poetry collection Sol Lande (2023).
Transdisciplinary practice: Combines sculpture and literature, treating writing as an extension of working with matter.
Materials and process: Works with wood, stone, metal, soil, and fragments of urban debris; explores the hidden memory and ambivalence of matter.
Themes: Anthropocene, memory of place, spatial longing, poetics of the ground and artificial surfaces.
