Holding the Sea – detail
a collective act of holding the sea together
a cube of frozen sea
Floating
In the Dream, 30x40cm. 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas
no title, 2020, 40x30cm. acrylic on canvas
Dubio, 2021, 110 x 90 cm. oil on canvas
Everything, 2022, 15 x 21 cm. mixed media on khadipaper
Homem 2021, 110 x 100 cm. oil on canvas
detail of a temporary placing of ‘rubble poems’.
pigment powder made out of rubble and a painted drawing , made with the rubble paint, on the rubble, 2023.
Subtle Body (detail),mixed media,
Salt Traces2025
photo Changli Luo
Rooted in Air 2023 photo Dong
Subtle Body, a selection of work on paper-2019/2024
Holding the Sea – detail
a collective act of holding the sea together
photography Mirella Mochella
no title, 5x15cm.2019, mixed media on leather
CaveSpace meetings
photo Wang Xue Sophia
CaveSpace meetings
photo Wang Xue Sophia
Rooted in Air 2023 photo Dong
Jacket 2019, 30 x 40 cm, acrylic and mixed media on canvas
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I explore the spaces in between as relational zones — fragile, fleeting, and quietly resonant — where togetherness and aloneness unfold in continuous exchange, and where lives, people, time, and matter keep shifting and recombining. My work is driven by curiosity for what resists definition yet shapes our sense of time, presence, and change.
Central to my practice is the act of carrying experience — exploring impermanence, presence, and the fragile tension of searching and guiding at once, releasing and making sense, as it unfolds through the intertwined layers of lived experience: parenthood, mortality, and the shifting positions from which we navigate life.
Painting and spatial installation form the core of my practice, often combined with found materials. Fragmentation, layering, and intuitive searching guide the work, allowing it to dwell in in-between states — moments of uncertainty, transition, and emotional nuance.
Although the work often moves through ephemeral and elusive terrain, it remains grounded in attention to the present: care, responsibility, grief, and the traces we leave behind. It seeks not resolution, but a space for reflection, encounter, and subtle shifts in perception.
Fleur Carlier (1981) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and art educator based in Amsterdam. Working across painting and spatial installation, she brings handmade works into dialogue with found materials such as building rubble to explore inner landscapes, material encounters, and shifting experiences of temporality. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht (2025) and a Bachelor of Fine Art and Education (2014, with honors) from the Breitner Academie (AHK).