Since childhood, Laura has had a passion for Applied Arts. She tries to reflect on the design of the forms and functions of the objects around us. She is now a graduate from the institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse, fine arts department.

Laura Rives explains: "I've had the chance to learn in a school that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to art. The teachers artists as well as the workshops by other artists encouraged me to experiment with several disciplines. This allowed me to develop my photographic work in space and to ask myself questions about its deployment". The young artist specifies that she never stops experimenting, transforming and altering our perception of the world. This contemporary vision of art pushes her to apprehend photography differently by blurring reality: "I go through multiple stages before arriving at a final piece. I photograph, scan, overexpose, retouch, erase, print, stretch, roll up, fold, sand, wipe, crumple... Then I print this manipulated image in a large format on silver paper using a digital process. These fugitive photographs diminish until they disappear ".

Contrary to our hectic world, time is at work in her creations. Mysterious, ghostly and experimental, Laura Rives' photographs blur the line between the intentional and the accidental, between reproduced and unique. During her studies, she traveled to China for four months at école offshore and exhibited her work in Shanghai. Attracted by Asia, Laura went to Hong Kong and Tokyo in August to discover emerging artists.