Through mixed-media images that focus on the spaces she encounters or the ones she recreates, Laura Bonnefous offers a poetic depiction of reality.
Her projects navigate between personal endeavors and commissioned work, using both photo- graphy and film.
Inspired by the relationships humankind entertains with contemporary landscapes, but also captivated by the mutations our society goes through, she studies and deciphers the mytho- logies of our humanity in order to depict them with sensitivity. From these elements taken from reality, she recreates her own spaces: metaphorical and personal universes.
Both pictorial and sculptural, her work flirts with abstraction, and thus proposes a new archeology of contemporary codes.
She developped her mixed-media practice studying at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, at the Otis College of Art and Design of Los Angeles, and at Gobelins, l’École de l’Image, in Paris.
Laura Bonnefous has taken part in exhibitions and residencies across the world. She has held and participated in many exhibitions including, 104 in Paris, the Cité Internationale des Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bangkok, the Onishi Studio in Japan, the Parcours Saint Germain, the Voies Off, the Mois de la Photo, the Festival de la Jeune Photographie Internationale de Niort, the Palais Galliera, the Arezzo festival in Italy, FotoHaus in Arles, the Rencontres Photographiques du 10th in Paris, the Promenades Photographiques de Vendôme, the Festival de Saint Brieuc, Mairie de Paris and recently at Haute Photographie in Rotterdam in February 2023.
In 2021, she published her first monograph as her series Failles became a book thanks to Éditions H2L2. In 2022, she realise her second book Kilamba, which will be released during the Rencontres de Arles 2022 with Louis Vuitton Editions
She was part of the 30 under 30 Women Photographers in 2015. She has won several prizes, such as the Bourse du Talent, the Prix Picto or the Creative Directors Prize. She was also
a finalist for the Prix de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris and for the BMW Residency.
