France, 1961
Lou Ma Ho, whose real name is Marc-Olivier Louveau, is a screenwriter, filmmaker, writer and teacher of dramaturgy. The author of numerous reference books on writing, he is also the author of philosophical tales and historical novels.
In cinema, his work explores the meeting points between history, philosophy and spirituality. Beyond cinema and literature, he pursues an aesthetic and philosophical research that has naturally led him toward sculpture and the visual arts.
The origin of the Zen Statues goes back to a statue that appeared in his film
A Monk's Awakening (2005). This philosophical tale revealed one of these mineral, sober and silent forms for the first time in a purified space.
It was not a prop, but already a sign: the visual materialization of the Zen thought that runs through Lou Ma Ho’s entire body of work. Since then, he has multiplied variations of these statues, exploring materials, scales and contexts: sculpting silence, giving form to the moment, making a universal, fragile and powerful figure emerge.