Amalia Laurent

Familiar with the flux and porosity of identity, Amalia Laurent tackles topographic, geographical and cartographic themes that are both real and fantastical. The predominance of textiles and prints in her artistic practice highlights the wide palette of a dual culture as well as an inherent confrontation between history and stories. By using a vocabulary of familiar forms, archaic references and primitive techniques, she develops a practice that feeds on a personal, familial, ancestral memory and a collective memory, that borrows from history, archeology and founding myths. Her history, unfolding in imaginary countries, draws us into unknown territories. Amalia’s craft and textile work questions the use of tools and materials as much as the philosophical relationship to ancestors and the afterlife and transmission of ideas through society’s collective memory. The mastery of these techniques is then brought into dialogue with that of contemporary printing and technology.