SERIES
Fairies
The Fairies series is Cedric's longest ongoing sculpture series.
Since childhood, he was always fascinated with the macro world. The idea that an entire world exists on a different scale wherever you look was his link to the fantasy world he grew up dreaming about.
The fairies are each unique in their designs, and after decades of designing, he is always surprised that new possibilities of composition are still available to him.
The fairies are a mixed media composition of insects and plants reflecting the astonishing beauty of the natural world.
Thrones
Thrones is a natural evolution of Cedric's celebrated Fairies series, expanding the narrative beyond the fairy itself to reveal the enchanted worlds these ethereal beings inhabit. Each sculptural throne serves as a stage for an imagined kingdom, transforming delicate fantasy into immersive environments that evoke wonder, mythology, and forgotten realms.
Crafted from preserved butterflies, insects, botanicals, bones, and other natural elements, the works continue Cedric's signature exploration of nature's beauty while introducing a heightened sense of scale, architecture, and ceremony. Every composition is meticulously assembled, allowing the organic forms to dictate the structure, resulting in thrones that appear both regal and organically grown, inviting viewers to look beyond the individual figure and into a broader fantastical universe, one where nature is both architect and storyteller.
Birds I
The Birds I series emerged from Laquieze’s exploration of taxidermy and the historical symbolism of birds. Drawing inspiration from medieval alchemical imagery, where birds frequently represented spiritual transformation and the stages of the alchemical process, Laquieze became interested in translating these highly imaginative and symbolic representations into contemporary sculptural forms.
Using taxidermy and natural materials, he reinterprets the bird not simply as a representation of nature, but as a vessel for ideas of transformation, mystery, and the relationship between the physical and the imagined. The resulting sculptures retain a connection to the natural elegance of the bird while evoking the strange, symbolic creatures found throughout medieval visual culture.
Birds II
In Birds II, Laquieze turns his attention from the symbolism of the natural world to the influence of human creativity upon it. The series began after he encountered a Christian Dior dress in Veince, inspiring him to imagine a species of bird shaped not by nature, but by the aesthetics of haute couture.
The resulting sculptures translate the language of fashion into imagined organic forms, replacing feathers with the movement, structure, and delicacy of textiles. Through this reversal of inspiration, Laquieze explores how human design can begin to influence the way we imagine nature, creating birds that exist somewhere between the organic and the constructed, the natural and the imagined.
Vulgaris
"Leo Vulgaris" is the crown jewel of Cedric's series Vulgaris.
The series explores the theme of momento Mori by merging traditional taxidermy with the unusual addition of colorful summer flowers resulting in an ecstatic and vibrant sculpture.
The lion is the highest symbol of strength, power, and dominance. This medium aims to explore the theme of life and death simultaneously in all of their respective beauty.
Archetypes
The marble sculptures of the ancient world used to represent gods, and figures of mythology were meant to bring the divine into a humanly recognizable shape.
Each of these sculptures represents an achetype found in every type of storytelling, weather it be religious, legendary, or mythological.
The image of "the Mother", "the Sinner"," the Prophet" or "the Emperor" are the building blocks that connect all storytelling together. They are the symbols that humanity have used since the dawn of time to make sense of the world and our place in it.
