Laure Winants

Statement

The whirlwind of stardust. The tide of the sea. The irruption of a volcano. These childlike fascinations bring to the fore the continuous going back and forth between science and the mystery of nature. They are at the core of my photographic work as I’ve been dialoguing, since 2010, with scientists who explore and document natural phenomenon. Nature has a will of its own. It always finds its way outside of the humankind culture and its influence. A volcano for instance is still something non-negotiable. We attend to measure the world around us through our physical presence, how we engage with our surrounds, and how we perceive color, time, motion and scale. The aim of my work is to tackle the environmental issues through different prisms, to confront both the scientific and the artistic point of views on ways we enter in relation to our environment, to the natural phenomenon and their aesthetic perceptions and to discover new forms of data.

GlogauAIR Project

Throughout my work and travels, I have been fascinated by natural phenomena such as craters, swamps, volcanos and comets. In these contexts, since a few years now, I have started a dialogue with scientists working on and documenting these phenomena. The story begins with an encounter and evolves in crossing the scientific and photographic approaches, confronting point of views on ways we enter in relation to our environment, to the natural phenomenon and their aesthetic perceptions. The aim to tackle the environment issue through different prisms and discover new forms of data. My practice takes place in a research within the space, the experience and the encounter. It is therefore in this will of encounter that I head towards GlogauAIR. I’m always looking for workshop where I could learn and enhance my technique. I have the strong will to experiment new types of alternative process. In the context of this program, I wish to develop this line of work more in details, both artistically and theoretically. I also find this program as a great opportunity to share interests in analogue methods of processing, to confront points of view, to cross practices and give a hand to others within their research. It is a beautiful place favorable to create and share. Important for ideas’ irruption, and bringing forward new perspectives.

CV Summary

• Laure Winants is a Brussels based visual artist (b.1991).
• BA in Visual Communication and a MA at IHECS Academy, Brussels, Belgium, in the year 2016, during which she also completed a fine arts specialization at the Belas Artes of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
• Specialized in photography at KASK, Gent (2017-2018).
• The aim of her work is to tackle the environmental issues through different prisms, to confront both the scientific and the artistic point of views on ways we enter in relation to our environment, to the natural phenomenon and their aesthetic perceptions and to discover new forms of data.
• Recent screenings and exhibitions of her work include: Short Film festival at Namur (Terra Nullius, 2016), collective exhibition 60/60 (The Comet is coming, mars 2019), Museum of Photography in Charleroi (2019), Belgium, R.A.V.I (Artist residency 2020), Kunstcentrum Hasselt (2021).

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