Where the body becomes image, and the image becomes belief.

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Lou Rie (Marie-Lou Desmeules) is a Québec-born, Berlin-shaped, and Spain-based multidisciplinary artist and performer exploring transformation, faith, and illusion.
Known for her living sculptures and retro-illuminated Light Portraits, she uses the body — and later the image itself — as a canvas to question how we believe in what we see.

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Her practice unfolds between performance, photography, installation, and sound, creating scenes where emotion becomes architecture. What began as ephemeral transformations of flesh has evolved into Clara Nocturne, a transmedia myth blending music, cinema, and ritual — a “televangelic” world where devotion meets pop spectacle.

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Rie’s work has been presented internationally at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Aspen, US), Rivalry Project (New York, US), the Interfilm Festival (Berlin, DE), and as a commission for the HBO Top 10 series Queer You Are(Barcelona).
She is also the co-founder and art director of HARI Editions and the creator of Façade, an interactive urban video installation commissioned by the City of Montréal and the Government of Québec.

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From Québec to Berlin to Spain, Lou Rie continues to expand the world of Clara Nocturne — where art, belief, and emotion merge into a single luminous myth.