Laura Lamiel (b. 1943)

Laura Lamiel attended art school in France in the 1960s and dates the origin of her practice to 1978, at first in search of a zero point in monochrome painting. In 1985, the artist made abreakthrough when she started working with steel coated in white enamel, which originally served to explore her interest in the color white and the limits of painting. Since the mid-1990s, Lamiel’s work has largely consisted of small, walled-in spaces or delineated fields like tables, often incorporating white enamel. She populates these architectonic frames with found objects along with personal effects, photographs, and drawings, and configures them into small-scale installations staged in her Paris studio. By taking forgotten things from public space and turning them into something new, Lamiel might allow for a sense of hope, of recovery, and reuse, if only these creations were shared, exposed as objects in the public realm and preserved. Instead, Lamiel often has confined and even destroyed her physical compositions just after they were created, but not before she captures them with her camera. The only evidence of their existence are the photographs, which she prints and mounts or directly transfers onto enameled steel with a process of baking pigments into the substrate. The experience of“looking back” at Lamiel’s work becomes layered, self-reflexive, and, ultimately, an invigorating rediscovery

Her most recent solo exhibitions include OSMOS, New York, NY (2025); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR (2023); Cahn Kunstraum, Basel, CH (2021); CRAC Sète, FR (2019); La Verrière, Brussels, BE (2015); Kunst-verein Langenhagen, DE (2014); La Galerie - art center, Noisy-le-Sec, FR(2013) and Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, FR (2013). Her work has also been presented in several collective exhibitions, most recently at the Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, PT (2022); CAPC, Bor-deaux, FR (2021); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR (2019); Malmö Konsthall, SE(2018); Biennale de Rennes, FR (2016) and Biennale de Lyon, FR (2015).

An important monographic publication, LL – Laura Lamiel, was published in 2019 by Paraguay Press at the occasion of her personal exhibitionat CRAC-Contemporary Art Center in Sète (FR, cur. Marie Cozette). Her artworks are held in prestigious institutionnal collections inclu-ding MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, FR; Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, FR;Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR and Museumof Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, BR.

Lamiel lives in Paris.

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Selected Exhibitions

Laura Lamiel: Having Taken Place

OSMOS Address, New York, NY

March 27 - May 31, 2025