Kim KototamaLune was born in Vietnam and now lives and works in France. Her intricate and ethereal works reflect her wide-ranging interests in molecular structures, the inner mind, and the natural world. Working on a monumental scale through the process of flameworking, KototamaLune envelops viewers in the vast and dreamlike realms she creates.

In her collaborative efforts with Bones and Clouds, KototamaLune combines delicate constructions in glass with light, video, and other materials to construct immersive environments. These installations feel at once expansive and otherworldly, transporting viewers into both boundless landscapes and the shared imaginative space of the artists themselves.

Kim KototamaLune & the collective Bones and Clouds
« What if we were made only of emptiness?
A vibrant, inhabited void –
A breathing space where matter remembers silence.”

“I sculpt emptiness. I shape the invisible until it becomes presence.”

My work explores the nature of matter, the body and consciousness. Glass – a
paradoxical material - both frozen liquid and embodied transparency - has become my
language. I create glass sculptures as one would weave lace: thread by thread, weld
by weld, in dialogue with breath, slowness, and the absence of a mold. This encounter
with emptiness invites me to perceive differently, to welcome form as it emerges from
the intangible, to let structure arise from the interstice.

Nourished by all that constitutes life - from organic forms the architecture of
coexistence, from ancient cosmologies to emerging technologies - my inspirations flow
from marine ecosystems, biology, neuroscience, anthropology, quantum physics,
linguistics, Traditional Chinese Medicine, microbiota, and artificial intelligence.
My work seeks to reveal what, in the invisible, shapes our perception of reality. These
sculptures investigate thresholds of perception, cellular memory, micro-organisms, and
the liminal spaces between body, light and matter.

A slow, deep metabolization of substance into flesh.

It was within this dynamic that the collective Bones and Clouds was born, alongside
artists Jean-Benoist-Sallé (visual artist and video artist) and Stéphane Baz (director
and video artist). Together, we create immersive installations that merge sculpture,
video, generative art, sound, light, organic materials, and sensory devices.
Our works summon poetic spaces – environments to be inhabited rather than merely
observed. Spaces of slowing down, for transformation, regeneration, and sensory
reconnection.

We explore bodily metamorphosis, temporal flow, the materiality of light, thresholds of
consciousness, and the subtle tension between technology and the sacred.

In an age saturated with data and virtualization, we approach with emptiness not as
absence but as full presence: a fertile, generative space of emergence.

What drives me, ultimately, is to create worlds where potentials may reawaken, to
reimagine togetherness in a way that is both sensitive and poetic.