Laure Vigna

Laure Vigna was born in 1984 in Burgundy (FR), she lives and works in Marseille (FR)

“Laure Vigna shapes territories. In a desire for order, she attempts to rediscover the lines and planes that coordinate and define a given expanse. The spatial dimension is conceived as an excessive field of boundaries. This paradoxical approach aims to regulate and recompose space by submitting it to constraint.

In her early works, the arrangement of rudimentary elements and the development of the distance between objects initially led to the construction of original spaces. Later, the dislocation of these assemblies and the recomposition of elements into new configurations became a way to appropriate space, to master its plurality. Space is not merely an abstract notion, but a purely physical datum to which Laure Vigna attributes a corporeality and dynamic properties.

Recently returned from a solitary journey across the United States, the artist now offers a renewed interpretation of the notion of space. The visual experience of endless roads, the physical confrontation with the Sierra Nevada mountains, the sense of isolation within the ageless vastness of the desert—all put the artist to the test. From constructing space to dislocating it, Laure Vigna now seeks to systematize it.

For her, the experience of territory is not synonymous with rootedness or settling down. It is about regaining a sense of spatial measure. The artist offers us a unique experience of place. She urges us to take a step back and gain perspective on the physical space around us, much like a cartographer. But while the cartographer limits themself to recording geographical data through a codified system, Laure Vigna goes as far as to represent the internal structure of each territory she observes, in order to rediscover the geometric order that governs our perception of lived space.”

— Text by Myriam Metayer