Lola Colmez
Design
Biography
Lola has 28 stars tattooed on her body, affirming what she always believed: there’s something magical happening around her. Half-French, half-Kenyan, she uses cartoonesque greenscreen not just for videos, but to create a space where writing, watching movies, and community blur into a playful reality. Rooted in Afrofuturism, her work fabricates alternate ways of existing, mixing nostalgia, futurism, and hybridity.
There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns
'There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns' is a speculative TV zapping project dedicated to Black spectatorship, offering space for unseen, banned, or reimagined media. Deeply influenced by my own relationship to cinema—where spectatorship has always been both a site of pleasure and tension—the project is shaped by the ways film and television have taught me to look at myself and the world. Through interviews, remade programs, and Afrofuturist aesthetics, the TV becomes a space for exploring identification, resistance, and the nuances of representation—especially from the perspective of Black women and diasporic identity. It imagines a space where Black viewers are not only centered, but able to reclaim and reframe what has historically been denied, distorted, or erased on screen.