Zoé Ladouce is a French artist born on May 28, 1997, in Rouen. She lives in Marseille. She studied at ENSBA Lyon, ISDAT Toulouse, and the Beaux-Arts de Marseille. Her favorite food is a slice of bread with butter and jam. She works in performance, installation, and writing. She reflects on her life as an artist and particularly enjoys highlighting her fears and doubts in the creative process. She exhibits wherever her applications are accepted. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Triangle-Astérides art center, a resident at the Achterhaus studios in Hamburg, and a participant in the Nuovo Grand Tour in Italy. She has performed and exhibited at the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, for the “100%” exhibition at the Grande Halle de la Villette, at the National Ballet of Marseille, at the Karl Farber Foundation, at the Ladøns Gallery and Mom-Art Space in Hamburg, at the Jeanne Barret workshops, at the Château de Servières, as well as in Marseille and at Art-o-rama, where she received the François Bret Prize for her very young career. Her favorite color is pink. Her hobbies are sports and InDesign layout. Her dream is to become a great artist so that countless biographies will be written about her career.
In the tradition of institutional critique, the core of Zoé Ladouce’s work centers on one question: what does it mean, today, to be a young artist-author? Eager to showcase all facets of her craft, her work is a staging of her daily life as an artist. Since completing her studies at the Beaux-Arts in Marseille, she has developed a practice that blends performance, installation, and role-playing, which examines her connection to the art world’s ecosystem as well as her relationship to work, whether artistic or for a living. It is through this sociological dimension, coupled with a mischievousness that is dear to her, that her work prompts us to question more broadly the artist’s place in society, dissecting her relationship to failure, doubt, profitability, and the labor value of her practice.