PERENNIAL, Laura Garcia-Karras

For this new season, two young French artists are being welcomed to the MO.CO. Panacée. Laura Garcia-Karras and Aurélien Potier will each be presenting their first solo exhibition in a public institution. To prepare their exhibition, MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain invited them for four months of artist residency to enable them to create a series of new works and immerse themselves in the exhibition spaces. Beyond a first formal interpretation that could separate them, the aective approach of their respective practices motivates this choice. It is the gesture that is most important to these two artists.

Laura Garcia-Karras is dedicated to just one medium: painting, which she stretches, deconstructs and sculpts, questioning its own materiality. In her representations of elements of nature, essentially flowers, the artist proposes different levels of interpretation. In her canvases, she goes beyond their poetic language and invokes their symbolism of fragility and eternity, transcending their sensuality and carnality. This show is an opportunity for the artist to explore her medium in a new way, exploding and consuming the motifs and bringing out the juices. Laura Garcia-Karras takes us on a journey wandering through gardens and into the abyss.

Image : Laura Garcia-Karras, Laura (détail), 2024, huile sur toile. Production MO.CO. © MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain. Courtesy Laura Garcia-Karras / Paris-B. ADAGP, Paris 2024.

Marin beaux arts

Biographie :

Born in 1988, Laura Garcia-Karras studied at the La Cambre school in Brussels and then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, from which she graduated in 2015. In 2018, she was the winner of the Fondation Crédit Agricole competition and the third winner of the Prix Antoine Marin, sponsored by Bernard Frize. She is currently resident at Poush Manifesto in Aubervilliers. She has also exhibited at Galerie Taymour Grahne Projects, London (UK), Galerie Comparative (Paris, France), Galerie Paris-B (Paris, France), Musée Zhi Art (China), Collection Lambert (Avignon, France), Fondation Greenline, Parc d'Ognon (France), Beirut Art Fair (Lebanon) Art Paris (France), Miart, Milan (Italy), The Shanghai Art Fair Fair (China) and the MO.CO. Panacée (Montpellier, France). Her work is represented by Galerie Paris-B (Paris).

Curators : Caroline Chabrand et Anya Harrison
Assisted by Deniz Yoruc

Under the artistic direction of Numa Hambursin, Chief Executive Officer