Carla Gueye (b. 1997, Angoulême) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Paris. She holds a Master’s degree (DNSEP) from the École nationale supérieure d’art de Cergy, France (2022).
Her artistic practice explores notions of intimacy and transculturality, investigating how they emerge and resonate within familial and collective contexts. Through her work, she reflects on the complexity of identities, emotional relationships, and the experiences shaped by encounters and frictions between cultures. By opening herself to otherness, her work reveals emotional, artistic, and socio-ecological dimensions.
Working with materials such as lime and clay, Gueye goes beyond their physical properties to construct narratives that reconfigure cultural knowledge and imagination. Her approach weaves together themes of memory, the feminine figure, and processes of excavation and reclamation of partially silenced or confiscated histories. Her art thus becomes a means of re-inscribing and understanding her own lineage.
Manual labor—central to her poetics, creates an intimate, almost domestic relationship with matter. It becomes a metaphor for construction, in both its social and humanistic dimensions. In this way, her works unfold as sensitive spaces of dialogue and reflection around culture, identity, and the complex networks that shape human experience.
In 2023, Gueye worked in Dakar with designer Bibi Seck, founder of the Dakar Next Design Lab, and later studied traditional pottery with the renowned artist Seyni Awa Camara during a residency in Casamance. In 2025, she will collaborate with Camara on a new series of sculptures for her project “Corps Immergés” (Immersed Bodies)—winner of the COAL Art and Ecology Prize (Ateliers Médicis Mention, 2024)—in partnership with oyster-farming women in Senegal.
Gueye’s current research aims to develop a form of “habitable and emotional art,” inseparable from life itself and deeply attuned to social and artistic ecology.
Recent exhibitions include:
Next / BISO Biennale, curated by Christophe Person, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (group - 2025); On / Océan, curated by Lauranne Germond, Maïf Social Club, Paris, France (group - 2025); 36th São Paulo Biennale, curated by Bonaventure Ndikung, Burkina Faso (group - 2025); Pays Bassari, curated by Malick Ndiaye, Musée Dauphinois, France (group - 2025); Paris is Out of Joint, Septième Galerie, Paris, France (group - 2025);' ARCO, curated by Inès Geoffroy, Institut Français, Art 10 Gallery, Spain (group - 2025); 68th Salon de Montrouge, curated by Andrea Ponsini, France (group - 2025); Les étranges bruits d’en bas, curated by Anaïs Mathurin and Nora Diaby, La Corvée, France (group - 2025); Pays Bassari, curated by Malick Ndiaye, Musée Dauphinois with the collections of Musée du Quai Branly and IFAN, Grenoble, France (group - 2024); Vie-Ves! Sauvage, curated by Camille Franch-Guerra, La Station, Nice – with the FRAC Lorraine collections, France (group - 2024); Comme un œil qui voudrait voir, curated by Olivia Marsaud & Franck Hermann Ekra, Institut Français – Galerie Le Manège, Dakar Biennale OFF, Senegal (group - 2024); 100% L’Expo, curated by Inès Geoffroy, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France (group - 2024); Dans la chambre je suis…, curated by Bibi Seck, Galerie Quatorzerohuit, Dakar, Senegal (solo - 2023).
