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 in Sub-Saharan Africa for  a slum-upgrading programme  at the United Nations in Nairobi engaged her in 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. The metaphor of covering damaged materials with shiny, silky fabrics echoes a process of restoration, while integrating a dimension of reinvention. 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 (Kenya) and Spain.