Veronique Locci

A French Sculptor Who Turns Glass Into Light

Born in 1965 in Saint-Tropez, Locci has spent her career turning a material known for its fragility into something structural, sculptural, and strange. She works in concave glass, shaping mirrors that curve inward instead of lying flat, so that every reflection they throw back is already a small distortion of the truth.

From Saint-Tropez to a Paris Studio

Locci works out of a Paris studio, where glass arrives from Murano, the Venetian island that has supplied master glassmakers for centuries. She has spoken about the pull of artists who treat scale and material as tools for disorientation: Anish Kapoor's mirrored installations at Versailles, Louise Bourgeois's spatial work at the Tate Modern, Doug Aitken's shifting, screen-based environments. That lineage shows up less in what her work looks like than in what it does to a room: it makes the space around it unstable, in a good way.

Murano Glass, Concave Form: Inside Her Process

Locci treats molten glass "as if it possessed the malleability of paper." She twists it, melts it, coats it, and sometimes sets inlays into the surface, including 24-karat gold leaf in pieces like Fusion, a sphere split by veins of gold. Each finished mirror is mounted on a hand-carved wooden support and marked with her engraved seal, a signature detail that shows up across every piece in the series.

Because the surface is concave rather than flat, the mirrors behave more like kaleidoscopes than conventional glass. They catch sunrise and sunset, artificial light, and the movement of anyone who walks past, then throw all of it back distorted, color-shifted, and in constant motion. It's less like looking into a mirror and more like looking into weather.

The Circle as Signature

Locci returns to the circle and the sphere across nearly every body of work, and she's been direct about why. "The shapes I give to my spheres are the reflection of my emotions," she has said. Elsewhere, she's described the round form in more bodily terms: "The round is feminine, delicate, sensual, like the curves of a woman. It invites you to escape, you would like to go through it to see what is hidden there." For Locci, roundness isn't a stylistic choice so much as a recurring idea, one she's tied to renewal: "In my work, everything is round and everything blends into the delicacy of the curve. It is a sign of life, of communion, of renewal."

Where to Find Her Work

Locci's mirrors circulate through a small, international set of galleries, including in the Middle East and Europe. Her pieces have shown in group exhibitions such as Tondos at Galerie Le Fell's Brussels space. Carousel Fine Art carries her work across Miami, the NORA District in West Palm Beach, Atlanta's Buckhead Village, and Chicago.

Why Collectors Choose Véronique Locci

A Locci mirror changes with the room it's in. It reads differently at noon than it does at dusk, differently in a stark white gallery than in a home with warm lamplight. That's the point. Collectors who live with her work don't describe it as decoration so much as a fixture that keeps doing something, long after the piece has been hung.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Véronique Locci? Véronique Locci is a French sculptor, born in 1965 in Saint-Tropez, known for concave mirrors made from blown Murano glass. She works from a studio in Paris and is represented by galleries across Europe, the Middle East, and North America, including Carousel Fine Art.

What is a concave glass mirror? A concave glass mirror curves inward rather than lying flat. The curve distorts and amplifies reflected light and movement, which is why Locci's pieces are often compared to kaleidoscopes rather than traditional mirrors.

How are Véronique Locci's mirrors made? Locci works with glass melted in Murano, Italy, then hand-shapes it into spherical and concave forms, sometimes adding inlays such as 24-karat gold leaf. Each piece is mounted on a carved wooden support and marked with her engraved seal.

Where can I buy Véronique Locci's artwork in the US? Carousel Fine Art carries Véronique Locci's work at its Miami, West Palm Beach (NORA District), Atlanta (Buckhead Village), and Chicago locations.

What galleries represent Véronique Locci? Locci is represented internationally by galleries in Europe, the Middle East, and Carousel Fine Art in the United States.