Lou Elie dit Cosaque
Lou Elie dit Cosaque (b. 2002, Paris) is a French-Caribbean textile artist living and working in Amsterdam. Her artistic practice explores textiles and language to weave stories and mythologies that connect forgotten Caribbean memories, symbols and imagination. She seeks to give form to worlds that reimagine lost pasts and envision alternative futures. At the core of her practice is an exploration of identity, as a patchwork of cultures, a layered history shaped by colonization, resilience and exchange.
Ostreoidea is a fictional living land that serves as a mirror to gaze into Caribbean histories. Grown from soft soil and humid air, she is shaped by colonization, memory loss, and survival. But Ostreoidea is not just a memory, it is also a rebellion. The island, once colonized by a high-tech utopian society, saw its soil poisoned and its rhythms disrupted by a civilization drunk on progress yet blind to consequence.
Music composition: Louise Baux
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Our cultural program aims to deepen the ecological and social dialogue initiated by our festival. Featuring an Eco Expo and a live audiovisual concert, it offers rich material for contemplation and discussion.
1 - 7 June
mo. 17:00 - 22:00tue. - fri. 14:00 - 22:00
sat. - sun. 11:00 - 22:00
at Studio/K
7 June | Exhibition tours | Studio/K
16:00 - 16:45
18:00 - 18:45
The three artists will show you their work and tell you more about their ideas, visions and inspiration.
︎︎︎ the eco expo is free to visit︎︎︎
Curatorial text:
Archives are never neutral. They are acts of selection, shaped by power, loss, and forgetting. For the 2026 Eco Expo of Sprouts Film Festival, three artists glean from what remains: a parasitic flower evolving through plastic pollution, a fictional Caribbean island scarred by colonization and memory loss, and a disabled bull, sole survivor of a colonial herd exterminated on a remote Indian Ocean island. Together, their works ask what grows when we return to what was left behind, and how inherited images, objects, and histories can be composted into new ecologies of meaning.
