Description
Megan Laurent, photographer and writer, is an artist that searches for the unknown.
Born in 1990, Megan Laurent always dedicated her time to art, writing and theater since childhood.
Since 2010, through self-portrait, her body and character became her own subject in an existential and subtle research. In her photos, her body simply questions its presence with no need of any decor, setting, or explicit behavior. In a sober, mysterious and solemn atmosphere, the viewer explores the act of being present, physically, mentally.
In photography, video, installation and writing, her work interrogates the presence and absence of beings, in a landscape, a room, or another galaxy.
For the new META DREAMS exhibition, something new happened in her artwork. This time, it’s an oniric landscape, with an explosion of colors, like a volcano. Based on one of her 2017 photographs from the Ormuz Island (Iran), came out this digital colorful landscape, with pink sky, blue and yellow dirt and spiral shapes. Something new she let happen.
The colors and shapes could make us think of an alter-ego of the original landscape, somewhere in the metaverse, in our mind or on another planet. Another land simply came out, another body. It could be defined as a silent dream of another world. A dream without conquest, without future, where we explore the Existence itself, here and now.
Maybe this piece will be the only one. Or maybe this is the start of a new adventure. Megan Laurent is unpredictable and her work is beyond classification. In her work, art is a research, an intrepid exploration before being a collection. A work we want to follow in the future.
Text written by Marine Bléhaut (mblehaut)
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