Lily D’Olce is a French fine arts photographer based in Barcelona and Milan. Her latest series features a continuum of figures made of textile and bodies in extension, soaring through remote, peri-urban and studio settings.

Since 2022, her journalistic work for a slum-upgrading programme at the United Nations in various regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Nairob (Kenya), made her research the complex realities of informal settlements, where people’s approach to informality, community development and empowerment marked a decisive - constructivist - turn in her interpretation of resilience.

Sculptural installations take shape in various types of fabrics and scrap, collected in Europe and in Africa, and through a precise modelling of movement, figures and bodies. Thematics of identity and eroticism lie at the core of Lily D'Olce's visual research. The metaphor of covering damaged materials with shiny, silky fabrics echoes a process of restoration, while integrating a dimension of reinvention. Through overlapping shapes, elevating and stacking, each slender figure presents, in fragments, a testimony of strength and possibility to personal and collective identities.

Lily D’Olce’s work has been shown in galleries and independent exhibition spaces in Nairobi and Spain. Since February 2025, her work is part of the Ettore Molinario's collection in Milan.