Laura Garcia-Karras defines her paintings as silent spaces. In the depths of silence, a pictorial, philosophical and poetic reflection is established, mainly based on time. The representation of the living (trees, branches, flowers, foliage) translates our destabilized relationship to images. She holds a natural construction, the mineral molding of a living form, plant or animal living form, vegetable or animal, whose print crossed the time to be found in her hand. A sensation, close to the sublime, which is the basis of a physical, conceptual and plastic research. (Text: Julie Crenn)
Laura Garcia-Karras was born in 1988 in Lilas, France. She graduated from La Cambre, Brussels and then the Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 2018, she was the laureate of the Concours Fondation Crédit Agricole in France and she won the third place of the Prix Antoine Marin, presented by Bernard Grize. She is now artist in residency in the Poush Manifesto in Auberveillers, France.
Born in Lilas, France in 1988
Works and lives in Paris, France
EDUCATION
2015
DNSAP (National Superior Diploma of Plastic Arts of France) Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2013-2015
Studio of Dominique Gauthier, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2009-2013
ENSAV (National Superior Audiovisual School), La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Le jardin de Derek, Galerie Comparative, Paris
2017
Le cabinet d’histoire naturelle, le musée et le casino, Beirut art Fair, Beirut
Mephistowaltz, Galerie Comparative, Paris
2016
Le désir du requin-marteau, Galerie Comparative, Paris
Graduation exhibition, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Immotelle, MO.CO. (Montperllier Contemporain) Panacée, Montpellier, France
Galerie Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK
2022
Une autre Odeur, Poush, Clichy, France
Vernissage à L’italienne, Galerie L’Avant Galerie Vossen, Paris
Forest Fantasy, Fondation, Greenline, Parc d’Ognon, France
Double Nature, siège d’Havas, Puteaux, France
Pardes, Atopos, Paris, France
2021
Lisière, Poush,Clichy, France
Galerie Sabine Bayasli, Paris
2020
She Ate the Crumbs : The Other Nature of Women, Galerie HB, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Réception, Hors Cadre en collaboration avec la Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris, France
2017
Novembre à Vitry, Vitry, France
AWARDS
2018
3rd place of the Antoine Marin Prize, presented by Bernard Frize
Winner of the Concours Crédit Agricole