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Laura Rives is a visual artist who graduated from the institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse in 2014. She was born in 1991 in Toulouse. She lives and works in Paris, France.

Her work has been presented on several occasions, including at Lieu-Commun Artist Run Space (Toulouse, FR), the Chapelle de la Madelaine (Arles, FR), the Bazaar Compatible Program (Shanghai, CN), the YiShu XueYuan University of Arts (Nanjing, CN), the Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute (Bordeaux, FR), the Espace Virtuel du Jeu de Paume (Paris, FR) or at the CACN (Nîmes, FR), in the autumn of 2020.

Laura also benefited from various residences, at the Maisons Daura (Saint-Cirq Lapopie, FR), the Réserve-Bienvenue (Bordeaux, FR) and the Cambrai 19 social centre with the support of Fanatikart (Paris, FR).

Polishing her relationship with the world, Laura Rives is interested in its surfaces, the physicality of things, its different skins, the multiple materials and liquids that make it up.

Working on the surface, she photographs our contemporary materials and experiences their reality. Through explorations, she tries to incarnate the photographic image by numerous manipulations to counter the decline of our tactile and sensitive sensations in our increasingly dematerialized societies.

In a very intuitive way and allowing for the accidental. She erases, scratches, stretches, attacks, sands, saturates and even burns the image down. The photographic material abandons itself to doubt, chance, drift, error and to the uncertainty of transformation. It thus becomes unstable and evanescent, it flees and liquefies under her actions. Hybriding installation and sculpture in suspended forms, the photographic body of Laura's works is shaped by wandering, charged with imprints.

In a desire to free photography from its role of mimicry of reality, the subject of her images escapes in the exhaustion of its matter. The image loses its referent, a distance occurs. It is erased. But the loss is not absolute, nor is the image totally emptied. There are always tenuous traces of it, fragments of material that have been lost, which make the crumbly aspect of the skin more apparent. Because of this emptiness, necessary in our era saturated by meaning, photography becomes an open form. The viewer then finds himself more in front of a presence than a representation of reality, allowing him to project his own narrative into it.

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Laura Rives is a visual artist who graduated from the institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse in 2014. She was born in 1991 in Toulouse. She lives and works in Paris, France.

Her work has been presented on several occasions, including at Lieu-Commun Artist Run Space (Toulouse, FR), the Chapelle de la Madelaine (Arles, FR), the Bazaar Compatible Program (Shanghai, CN), the YiShu XueYuan University of Arts (Nanjing, CN), the Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute (Bordeaux, FR), the Espace Virtuel du Jeu de Paume (Paris, FR) or at the CACN (Nîmes, FR), in the autumn of 2020.

Laura also benefited from various residences, at the Maisons Daura (Saint-Cirq Lapopie, FR), the Réserve-Bienvenue (Bordeaux, FR) and the Cambrai 19 social centre with the support of Fanatikart (Paris, FR).

Polishing her relationship with the world, Laura Rives is interested in its surfaces, the physicality of things, its different skins, the multiple materials and liquids that make it up.

Working on the surface, she photographs our contemporary materials and experiences their reality. Through explorations, she tries to incarnate the photographic image by numerous manipulations to counter the decline of our tactile and sensitive sensations in our increasingly dematerialized societies.

In a very intuitive way and allowing for the accidental. She erases, scratches, stretches, attacks, sands, saturates and even burns the image down. The photographic material abandons itself to doubt, chance, drift, error and to the uncertainty of transformation. It thus becomes unstable and evanescent, it flees and liquefies under her actions. Hybriding installation and sculpture in suspended forms, the photographic body of Laura's works is shaped by wandering, charged with imprints.

In a desire to free photography from its role of mimicry of reality, the subject of her images escapes in the exhaustion of its matter. The image loses its referent, a distance occurs. It is erased. But the loss is not absolute, nor is the image totally emptied. There are always tenuous traces of it, fragments of material that have been lost, which make the crumbly aspect of the skin more apparent. Because of this emptiness, necessary in our era saturated by meaning, photography becomes an open form. The viewer then finds himself more in front of a presence than a representation of reality, allowing him to project his own narrative into it.

education

2018

- Structurer et développer son activité artistique, BBB, Toulouse

2014

- DNSEP art, isdaT (institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse)

2013

- École offshore, sous la direction de Paul Devautour, Shanghai

2009

- BAC STI Arts Appliqués, Lycée Rive‑Gauche, Toulouse

solo shows

2020

- Entrez dans la matière !, Espace19 Cambrai, Paris