Inner Line
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A work is never alone: it belongs to a trajectory.
From March to July 2026, LooLooLook Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Paris’s 1st arrondissement, presents Inner Line, a cycle of three solo exhibitions dedicated to contemporary women artists.
More than a program, this project affirms a direction.
After five years of existence, the gallery chooses to structure what has naturally emerged: accompanying artistic trajectories over time.
A work is never isolated.
It is part of a movement, a research, an evolution.
Inner Line is its first fully embraced expression.
Why “Inner Line” today?
At a time when art is often presented as an immediate event or a spectacular statement, the gallery adopts another temporality: that of continuity.
"To accompany a work is to accompany a trajectory. " - Lu, galerist, LooLooLook Gallery
This implies following the evolution of a language, supporting phases of research, and producing works conceived for a specific space. Each exhibition becomes a step in a dialogue meant to endure.
Three Chapters — One Movement
Chapter I — Light as Structure
Olga Kataeva-Rochford
The Light of the Constellations / March 12 – April 11, 2026
This first collaboration opens the cycle with an exploration of light as a structuring force.
The exhibition brings together oil paintings of dense depth, a series of linocuts created especially for the occasion — numbered and signed, limited to 15 prints — as well as a mechanical art object, a unique piece presented at the gallery for the first time.
Here, light is not decorative: it organizes space, introduces movement, and traces a direction.
Chapter II — Disturbance as Passage
Pauline Bailly
Misting the Real / April 16 – May 18, 2026
With the universe of the “Cloud Woman,” Pauline Bailly explores the gradual transformation of a figure.
Oil paintings and original drawings — all unique pieces — converse without hierarchy. The drawings reveal the subtle stages of appearance and dissolution of this emerging form.
Disturbance is not a rupture: it becomes a passage, a slow construction of the gaze.
Chapter III — Metamorphosis as an Inhabited Space
XiaoWei Yuan
Alice in the Illusory Kingdom / June 4 – July 5, 2026
The cycle concludes with an immersive installation that transforms the gallery into an organic landscape.
Through ceramics, XiaoWei Yuan composes an environment where vegetal forms and open volumes interact within a unified whole. Visitors move through the heart of an imaginary world where matter becomes breath.
Metamorphosis manifests here as continuity and regeneration.
Making One’s Life a Work of Art
Inner Line accompanies artists who do not simply produce objects, but build a trajectory.
Their practice is not fragmented. It engages the gaze, time, and space as a coherent whole.
To make one’s life a work of art is not to romanticize. It means inscribing each exhibition within continuity, research, and responsibility.
The three artists are exhibiting at LooLooLook Gallery for the first time. This encounter is not momentary: it marks the beginning of a dialogue.
Works Created to Live and Breathe in Space
Each chapter gives rise to new productions conceived to inhabit the gallery:
A series of linocuts, numbered and signed, limited to 15 prints
A mechanical art object, a unique piece presented publicly for the first time
Paintings and drawings, all unique works revealing the evolution of a universe in formation
An immersive installation bringing together ceramic works within an organic landscape
Here, works are not simply hung: they take place, converse, and transform the space.
Rarity is not an argument, but the consequence of a demand for rigor.
A Curatorial Position within the Parisian Landscape
With Inner Line, LooLooLook Gallery affirms a way of working in Paris: privileging coherence, accompanying evolutions, and situating artists within continuity.
The project connects the artists, the place, and those who look.
A work is never alone.
It belongs to a trajectory.
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