Residency

For decades, people with disabilities have lived outside the city and have been represented as a body, an object of care, before being considered as people in their own right. The project carried out by the association APF France handicap Occitanie and the Boutographies aims to raise awareness of disability and to get out of the traditional representations through the author's photography.

Text

Laurence Briat doesn't hesitate to cut up and recut a number of visuals from old and new magazines to tirelessly reconstruct what forms her universe, a certain suggestion of her thoughts.

His collages, which are what we're talking about, use a variety of media (painting, engraving, photography, photogravure). A highly personal vision, imbued with finesse and sensitivity, emerges from his works. 

Most often made from old materials with their textures and wounded forms, his collages also confront the old with the modernity of the present. Here and there, a myriad of fragmented images from old and contemporary magazines meet and clash. Her works are adorned with colours and shapes that reveal strength, temporality and sensitivity, offering us an image to reflect on in the face of our worlds and our questioning.

By assembling fragmented pieces, collage illustrates the complexities of disability through storytelling.

Bio

Originally from Valence, Laurence Briat lives and works near Montpellier. 

Trained at the Beaux-arts in Marseille, Laurence Briat is an artist with a passion for images and their construction.

Solo exhibitions

2019: Avec ou sans vous, Gallery L' Aberrante, Le Crès
2018: Hors séries, N°5 Gallery, Montpellier
2015: J'attends - What? - The unexpected, MPT Boris Vian, Montpellier
2013: Hasards et intentions, Chapelle de Baillarguet, Montferrier 
2011: Maison de la Gravure Méditerranée, Castelnau-le-Lez
2010: Centre d'Art Contemporain, Briançon
2008: Maison des Arts, Bages
2008: Hôtel Lacoste, Pézenas
2007: Galerie Anne Cros, Pézenas
2007: Jardin Médiéval, Uzés
2006: Gallery Henri Willem, Bargemon
2005: Gallery Saint Ravy, Montpellier
2005: Espace Ripert, Bollène
2004: Gallery les Halles, Castries
2004: Collegiate Church of Bollène
2003: Hôtel des Consuls, Uzès
2003: Les Matelles Museum

Group exhibitions

2024: Collage Notes, Paris Collage Collective, Espace Canopy Paris
2023: International collage art exhibition, Pasila Urban Art center, Helsinki, Finland
2023: Coupé / Collé, Centre Culturel Rachid Taha, Paris 18e
2023: Fluo stories, La Confraternita del'Uva Bookshop, Bologna, Italy
2022: Corporeal gestures, School of Architecture, Portland University
2022: Post-it! Biblioyheek De Krook, Ghent
2019: Journées de l'Estampe, Place St Sulpice Paris
2019: Salon Artpage Octon
2018: Verticalités, The engravers of SUDestampe, Espace14, Nîmes
2017: Ça cartonne, Gallery 4 Barbier, Nîmes
2017: L' art en boîte, exhibition in 21 maritime containers, Béziers
2017: Il était deux fois, L'Atelier Laurence Allais, Lattes
2017: Narration(s): N°5 Gallery, Montpellier, Le lieu 
multiple, Montpellier, and LATELIER, Sète

Collection

International Collage Collection: The Kanyer Art Collection

Publications and editions

2022: Corporeal gestures, exhibition catalogue, Portland University
2022: Cover of the Soft Estate album "The painted ship
2021: Collage Care: Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage, edited by Laury Kanyer
2021: Yearbook 2021, Paris Collage Collective 
2021: transitional MOMENTS: restoring equilibrium through the art of collage, edited by Arizona Collage Collective. Kasimi House
2021: Cover of the book "Subjects we left out" by Naomie Washer

Exhibition opening

SATURDAY MAY 10 - 16:00

Hôtel d'Aurès
14 rue Eugène Lisbonne
34000 Montpellier, France