In her multidisciplinary practices, Carla Gueye investigates notions of intimacy and transculturality, exploring how these themes manifest and reverberate in the family context. Her works propose reflections on the complexities of identity, affective relationships, and the experiences that emerge from encounters and tensions between different cultures. By approaching otherness, her work also reveals emotional, artistic, and socio-ecological dimensions.

By using materials such as lime and clay, the artist not only explores their physical properties but also constructs narratives that reconfigure cultural knowledge and imagery. Themes such as memory, the female figure, and processes rooted in the excavation and re-appropriation of partially confiscated narratives run through her work, which simultaneously becomes a way of re-inscribing and understanding her own history. The manual labor that permeates her poetics establishes an intimate, almost domestic relationship with the materials – metaphorically evoking the idea of construction in both its social and humanistic dimensions. In this way, her works become sensitive spaces for dialogue and reflection on culture, identity, and the complex webs that shape human experience.

Cabinet of Invisible Desires (2025) is an interdisciplinary installation that explores the sensory, symbolic, and cultural dimensions of intimacy through a contemporary reinterpretation of female seduction rituals, especially those associated with dial diali, the Wolof art of seduction. The project uses a hybrid language that combines sculpture, fabric, video, and olfactory composition to propose an aesthetic of desire rooted in invisible everyday gestures, vernacular knowledge, and the sensitive archives of the body.