Interview with Laura Lamiel

Laura Lamiel is a French visual artist born in 1943. She began her career working on enamelled steel modules in 1985. She is interested in possibilities offered by small volume white bricks that it stacks or leans against a wall. With these elements, she explores monochrome composition and seeks alternatives to minimalist structures. In the 1990s, she assembles bricks with different materials and shapes, such as carpet rolls, synthetic furs, used gloves, ribbons. Although industrial, these everyday objects, from which an experience emanates, are detach themselves from the seriality inherent in their origin. Faded, they bring back the neutrality of the pure module to life. These works function as interferences that introduce doubt and act on thought. Objects soft, modifiable (rubber, silicone, ribbon), the artist then moves on to more rigid and fixed elements (trolleys, shopping carts, chairs) and produces scenographies where she combines utensils from urban space with objects artistic geometric shapes. Laura Lamiel fixes her ephemeral stagings by black and white or color photographs with slight variations from gray to yellow, but always having a large portion of white.