> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Romane Charlot: Luminous Structures in Tension - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/romane-charlot-luminous-structures-in-tension/ - Published: 2026-03-27T09:20:40.000Z - Updated: 2026-03-27T09:20:40.000Z - Description: Artist in Focus: Romane Charlot constructs luminous glass installations where light becomes structure, tension and collective activation. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Artist in Focus **Romane Charlot** **Born:** Île-de-France, France **Based in:** Montrouge / Paris, France **Medium:** Installation, Performance, Blown Glass, Stained Glass **Education:** École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, DNSEP, 2024 — Studio Nathalie Talec Glassblowing, Centre d'art verrier de Meisenthal, 2023 Stained Glass, Hélène Braud, 2022 **Recent Exhibitions:** *ÇA TOURNE*, Finale — L'art et la vie et inversement, 2025 *Mondes Nouveaux*, Beaux-Arts de Paris *Crush*, Beaux-Arts de Paris Château de Champs-sur-Marne, France Galerie HD, Paris (Colporteur collective) Le Kiosque art center, Mayenne La Villa Belleville, Paris **Grant:** Action Logement Seqens — One Building, One Artwork **Website:** [romanecharlot.com](https://romanecharlot.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Photography:** © Salomé Dahéron, © Simon Desmura **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy the Artist --- ## Romane Charlot – Installation & Sculptural Light Practice [**Romane Charlot**](https://romanecharlot.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) develops installations composed of luminous glass sculptures positioned between object, instrument and machine. Working primarily with colored glass and metal structures, she activates light as a structural element rather than an atmospheric effect. Her works reorganize space through projection, reflection and shadow, producing temporary constellations that shift with the viewer’s movement. Her practice draws on early optical devices and image technologies, as well as systems associated with spectacle and labor. The sculptures function individually yet gain clarity when assembled, forming collective arrangements that operate like silent systems of coordination. Each element contributes to a shared spatial logic. Activation remains possible, but not necessary; the works hold tension between potential performance and suspended stillness. Rooted in a memory of working class culture from Northern France, Charlot’s installations reference collective production, repetition and manual gestures. Materials guide decisions in an intuitive process she describes as bricolage. Craft and industrial logic remain deliberately unresolved. The result is not nostalgic reconstruction but a structured negotiation between light, labor and shared form. ![Romane Charlot, ÇA TOURNE, 2024. Installation view with suspended yellow blown glass element and colored glass discs mounted on steel structures projecting light and reflections. Steel, glass, tin. Beaux-Arts de Paris.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Romane-Charlot--artist.webp) ****Romane Charlot:** ÇA TOURNE, 2024, Steel, glass, blown glass, tin, various dimensions Beaux-Arts de Paris © Salomé Dahéron ## ÇA TOURNE - By Aurore Forray Conceived as a jam session, a short performance is performed by several artists who activate objects crafted by the artist. A gentle poetry unfolds as a performer rings a glass bell, followed by the rhythm of a metronome. Each instrument affects the others and alters the dynamics of the sound piece. Thus, the specific characteristics of the sounds become integrated into the choreography, from which emerges a melody that is both controlled and improvised. Romane Charlot creates objects inspired by everyday life, combining steel and stained glass, sometimes blowing glass. Like an inventor, she exploits the translucent aspect of the material to allow light and color to move through space. The spotlights placed on the ground refract irregular shapes, suggesting shadow puppetry. While the light is fixed, the artworks themselves are in motion. The simple mechanisms give them a handcrafted look, like the circular support, which evokes certain proto-cinema techniques. When a ball takes on the size of a balloon, the change of scale reinforces the humorous effect of its approach. Like a cabinet of curiosities, the prototypes of objects in progress are arranged on shelves. Deploying a dreamlike universe at a fairground event, Romane Charlot deliberately immerses us in childhood. **Aurore Forray* Text written for the Finale edition, l'Art La Vie Et Inversement* --- [**Instagram Romane Charlot**](https://www.instagram.com/romane%5Fcharlot/?hl=en&ref=catapult-platform.art) --- ## **Notable Artworks Romane Charlot** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Romane-Charlot--sculptural-work.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Romane-Charlot--glass--sculpture.webp) ****Romane Charlot:**(left) HELSIX, 2023 Verre, acier, étain 50 x 30 x 160 cm © Salomé Dahéron (right) HELSIX, 2023 Verre, acier, étain 50 x 30 x 160 cm © Salomé Dahéron ![Romane Charlot, GRAINS DE VERRE and ROUET DE VERRE, 2025. Activatable stained glass works installed in stone window openings, composed of glass, steel and tin with circular yellow glass elements. Photo © Simon Desmura.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/roman-charlot--new-glass-artist-in-contemporary-art.jpg) ****Romane Charlot:** GRAINS DE VERRE, 2025 Glass, steel, tin, 35 × 80 cm Activatable stained glass - ROUET DE VERRE, 2025 Glass, steel, tin, 100 × 60 cm Activatable stained glass © Simon Desmura ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Romane-Charlot--artwork.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Romane-Charlot--catapult-munchies-art-club.webp) ****Romane Charlot:** (left) CARROUSEL, 2024 Bois, étain, cuivre 50x 70 cm © Salomé Dahéron(right) ROULEAU, 2024 Bois, étain, verre, cuivre 30x45cm © Salomé Dahéron ![Romane Charlot, CHEVAL ET VOITURE DE VERRE, 2024. Wall-mounted wooden panel with sculptural elements in tin, glass and copper depicting a horse and circular forms connected by curved copper lines.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/romane-charlot.jpg) ****Romane Charlot:** CHEVAL ET VOITURE DE VERRE, 2024 Wood, tin, glass, copper © Salomé Dahéron --- ## **Related Readings:** [Featured](https://munchiesart.club/artist-in-focus/?ref=catapult-platform.art) ## Verena Issel Installation And Object Artist In Focus [Read More](https://munchiesart.club/verena-issel-installation-and-object-artist-in-focus?ref=catapult-platform.art) [Exhibition](https://munchiesart.club/exhibition/?ref=catapult-platform.art) ## Call Someone at ayayay [Read More](https://munchiesart.club/exhibition-call-someone-at-ayayay-frankfurt?ref=catapult-platform.art) [Interview](https://munchiesart.club/interview/?ref=catapult-platform.art) ## Kevin A. 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