Louis Le Kim

Louis Le Kim’s paintings are deeply influenced by his explorations of abandoned and active industrial sites—steel mills, electric and nuclear power plants, mines, oil fields—as well as subterranean urban networks, frontlines, archaeological sites, and hostile natural environments such as deserts and volcanic regions. Le Kim transposes these architectural fragments, gathered over the course of his explorations, into monumental and fictional environments set within deserted landscapes. Louis Le Kim’s works provoke a strange kind of vertigo—an attraction to the sublime tinged with unease—reflecting both our thirst for spectacle and our growing fear of collapse.