Lorenzo Papace is a French artist based in Ireland. He creates visual and scenographic worlds in paper, while his broader practice also extends into music, writing, and narrative forms.

His work is drawn to dreams, ruins, architecture, forgotten stories, strange beauty, and the quiet presence of mystery and the fantastic. Across visual and musical forms, he develops worlds where atmosphere, narrative, and material meet.

His work is also informed by a critical attention to industrial modernity, ecological devastation, and the fragile conditions of life, memory, and place.

Journey and Influences

Born in Lyon, Lorenzo Papace grew up in a difficult environment. Orphaned at the age of four after his mother was killed, he was then raised within a religious sect.
Art and nature became essential refuges, two forces that would deeply shape his path.

Introduced early to the piano, he developed a strong connection to classical music and jazz. Hiking and the discovery of wild landscapes nurtured his practice and worldview.

At seventeen, he left the Jehovah’s Witnesses, embarking on a path toward freedom and independence.

He studied Applied Arts at La Martinière Diderot in Lyon, then pursued a BTS in Spatial Design and a DSAA in Interior Architecture.

There, he forged an aesthetic and political approach to design, rooted in a deep sensitivity to materials and a critical awareness of social and ecological issues.

His thinking has been shaped by anarchism, radical ecology, and feminism. Through his work, he questions humanity’s place within an industrialized world and searches for poetic and critical alternatives to standardization.

Music & Ödland

In 2008, Lorenzo founded Ödland, a musical project through which he has developed a mysterious and melancholic universe, often dark, sometimes touched with humor and irony.

Ödland draws from tales, travel, forgotten folklores, acoustic instruments, and repurposed objects. Piano, violin, mandolin, flute, cello, toys, tape recorders, and other unusual sounds all contribute to a world where each song becomes a small fiction of its own.

Over time, Ödland has become a poetic laboratory for exploring atmosphere, narrative, adventure, environmental devastation, oblivion, and the search for freedom. In 2024, Lorenzo extended this musical world into a theatrical form with Des vagues, a musical theatre piece where stagecraft, music, and visual imagination converge.

Visual Arts and Scenography

Alongside his musical work, Lorenzo Papace has developed a visual and scenographic practice centred on paper, atmosphere, and constructed worlds.

Working through paper, stop-motion animation, scenographic forms, and image-making, he creates visual environments where architecture, narrative, and strange beauty meet. His collaborations include Arte, Hermès, the Musée d’Orsay, Miu Miu, Nike, and the Cité des Sciences.

Since moving to Ireland, this practice has entered a new phase through Paper Dublin, a body of work dedicated to the architectures, shadows, and atmospheres of Dublin. These fragments of the city become poetic objects, images, and series suspended between observation and imagination.

Commitment and Resistance

Lorenzo’s work is also informed by a critical attention to industrial modernity, ecological devastation, and structures of domination. This dimension appears not only in explicit projects, but in his choice of materials, his attachment to slowness and handmade processes, and his attraction to abandoned places, fragile worlds, and forms of resistance.

Alongside his artistic work, he has contributed to projects such as L’École du Chat Noir and Floraisons, extending his practice into political and ecological reflection. He is also actively involved in anarchist and ecofeminist circles, anchoring his work within a broader movement of intellectual, emotional, and artistic resistance.

He is the co-founder of CNT-STAA, the Union of Artists and Authors Workers, and advocates for continuous income rights for artists.

Collaborations and Commissions

Lorenzo Papace is open to selected visual, scenographic, and musical collaborations, as well as commissions and residencies.

Across artistic, cultural, and commercial contexts, he brings the same attention to atmosphere, detail, and coherence. He is particularly drawn to projects that seek narrative strength, formal precision, and room for a distinctive authorial world to emerge.