Lou Vicious
Lou Vicious
ORIGIN FORMATION & IDENDITY
O R I G I N , F O R M A T I O N & I D E N D I T Y
Lou Vicious is the artist alter ego of Marlen Langhauser.
A name that began long before the music and eventually became a container for work that is personal, intuitive and difficult to separate by medium.
Lou Vicious didn’t begin as a brand or a concept.
It began as a tagline:
best vicious,
Lou
I used it in the street. Sprayed stencils of my favorite artists in the streets of the small, petty-bourgeois world I grew up in. Cute, teenage interventions. But I celebrated each tag as a rebellion act. Used art to rub my environment. Claiming space at night and in silence.
And called it mine.
Lou Vicious didn’t begin as a brand or a concept.
It began as a tagline:
best vicious,
Lou
I used it in the street. Sprayed stencils of my favorite artists in the streets of the small, petty-bourgeois world I grew up in. Cute, teenage interventions. But I celebrated each tag as a rebellion act. Used art to rub my environment. Claiming space at night and in silence.
And called it mine.
T H E N A M E S T A Y E D
T H E N A M E S T A Y E D
The mediums multiplied.
Photography, self-portraits, music, writing.
Each project, driven by a common impulse:
to leave a trace,
to test edges,
to make something visible that others didn’t see or wanted to hide.
None of this was planned.
I built it through repetition.
Lou Vicious became the container for my work that was personal, intuitive, and that others wanted to suppress or shut off.
Lou Vicious refuses to stay locked up in her room.
The mediums multiplied.
Photography, self-portraits, music, writing.
Each project, driven by a common impulse:
to leave a trace,
to test edges,
to make something visible that others didn’t see or wanted to hide.
T O M I S B E H A V E
T O M I S B E H A V E
None of this was planned.
I built it through repetition.
Lou Vicious became the container for my work that was personal, intuitive, and that others wanted to suppress or shut off.
Lou Vicious refuses to stay locked up in her room.
I don’t create to please.
I create to clarify.
I trust intuition more than strategy.
And let things stay slightly rough when they feel alive.
I’m not interested in correctness, I’m interested in authenticity.
This space isn’t curated for comfort.
It’s built for resonance.
O R I E N T A T I O N , S T A N C E &
P O S I T I O N
I don’t create to please.
I create to clarify.
I trust intuition more than strategy.
And let things stay slightly rough when they feel alive.
I’m not interested in correctness, I’m interested in authenticity.
This space isn’t curated for comfort.
It’s built for resonance.
O R I E N T A T I O N , S T A N C E &
P O S I T I O N