Contact
For collaborations, commissions and enquiries you can reach me here
ldubourjal@hotmail.frCV
b.1994
current artist in residence at WOW Lieven Amsterdam
Studies
2022 MA Dutch Art Institue, ArtEz
2018 Bachelor of Arts and Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Exhibitions
2022
Open rehearsal, Looking for Character, in Aeroponics acts Dutch Art Institute, at Central Fies, Italy
Performance, excerpt from Looking for Character, in A Mic Of One’s Own: If the body is a home, who is our neighbor?, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL
Performance, excerpt from Looking for Character, in Dutch Art Institute, at BACO Bergamo, Italy
Group Exhibition, Inside Laï’s mind, in Home Cinema x Unreliable Narrators, Reneenee, Amsterdam, NL
Online exhibition, Flags of Wasted Lands, ARTFUSION Room VI, The Holy Art, UK
Online screening, Inside Laï’s mind, in Home Cinema x Unreliable Narrators
Group online exhibition, Inside Laï’s mind, in A Cooperative enterprise during The Wrong Biennale n°5
2021
Performance, excerpt from Looking for Character, in Dutch Art Institute, Posttheatre, Arnhem, NL
Solo live event, Inside Laï’s mind, Museum of Unfulfilled Dreams, Fringe Arts Bath, UK
Group exhibition, The Octopus Dialogues, in Future Everyday Life, Formation Camp, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL,
Group exhibition, Hunger&Focus, Prisoner of our own illusion, Amsterdam, NL
Group exhibition, Flags of Wasted Lands, Garden exhibition, Wow Lieven, Amsterdam, NL
Solo digital event, Inside Laï’s mind, Museum of Unfulfilled Dreams, Fringe Arts Bath, UK
Solo exhibition Flags of Wasted Lands, eight cubic meters, Amsterdam, NL
Group exhibition, Selfie Embroideries, at Immateriel, Amsterdam, NL
2020
Solo exhibition Flags of Wasted Lands, eight cubic meters, Amsterdam(NL)
Group exhibition No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam(NL)
2019
Group exhibition Absurd Beings on Skin, Kunstcapel, 1-4 May, Amsterdam(NL)
Group exhibition KunstRai 2019, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibition, Wow this is not a Fashion Show, WOW, Amsterdam (NL)
2018
Group show ALIGNE, subtly towards static movement, Butcher’s Tears, Amsterdam (NL)
Graduation Show Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2017
The Fashion Show Rietveld Academie 2017 Amsterdam (NL)
Group Exhibition Cinq cent quarante minutes at Sexyland, Amsterdam (NL)
2016
The Fashion Show Rietveld Academie 2016 Amsterdam (NL)
2015
The Fashion Show Rietveld Academie 2015 Amsterdam (NL)
Group Exhibition WONDER&WANDER in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (NL)
Residencies
2021
Artwell Amsterdam (NL)
2019
WOW Lieven Amsterdam (NL)
2018
WOW Amsterdam (NL)
Prices and distinction
2021
Certificate of merit, Luxembourg Art Prize
Publications
2022
WOW artists in residency
2018
Eindexamen Rietveld 2018 afdeling VAV https://trendbeheer.com/2018/07/05/eindexamen-rietveld-2018-afdeling-vav/
2016
Recens N°5
Introduction to the practice
Laura Dubourjal (1994) is a French visual artist and fashion designer. Having grown up in a family of actors, she often uses linguistics of the theatre world to question the power of characters and the performativity of our every day interactions. She explores different thematics of identity and performance in her multidisciplinary work, using media that include performance, video works, interactive audio-visual installations, fashion design, textile and written text.
She attended the Audio-visual department (VAV) at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (BA 2018) and the Dutch Art Institute at ArtEZ (MA 2022).
Dubourjal’s practice intersects between exploring the paradigm of fabricated role-plays of non-binary identity representations. Her artistic interest diverges from re-imaging archetypes of gender socialization, to exploring dialectics of the inner feminine monologue and its translatable political value. She often draws references from classical theatre techniques by excavating fragments and examples of emotional memory, behavioural landscapes and visual fabulations. Her performative practice is currently developing towards interactive role playing methodologies and thinking through the form of the open rehearsal as a space to reclaim. The works of social activist and dramaturge Augusto Boal are an important influence in her questioning of the boundaries and hierarchies within the form of performance itself. Dubourjal’s practice is situated between interdisciplinary research as cross-media experimentations, pushing boundaries of design, performativity and visual narratives. With divergent media play, Laura’s work involves viewers in a dialogue on the transgressive nature of the identificational protocols.
Her work has been exhibited in venues and events such as Oude Kerk, Amsterdam Fashion Week, Eight Cubic Meters Gallery, Kunstcapel Amsterdam, and KunstRAI Art Fair, Kunstinstituut Melly and Central Fies (IT).
She is currently based between Amsterdam and Paris.