Laur P
Laur P’s work offers a speculative visibility of paleo-ecological compositions in becoming, an imaginary space that they investigate from a trans-queer-crip perspective.
In their works, fragments of inter-species compositions compress through a slow process of accretion, decomposition and re-emergence. Throughout this stratigraphic process they seek fossilization and indetermination while paying particular attention to the agential force of the materials they use. This intuitive and taphonomic approach allows them to visualize entanglements that are at once underworldly and topographical, micro- and macroscopic, and in which various temporal and metaphorical dimensions intersect.
On the periphery of eco-critical considerations of contemporary nature-cultures and the hauntings they reveal, Laur P’s assemblages of pictorial fossils invite a rapprochement between the formal contemplation of materials that are associated in their work and their intertwined intentions, which are, to disrupt speciesist understandings of evolution and natural phenomena, to disturb the tradition of the landscape as a space for humanistic representation of nature, to disorient ableist pictorial conventions, and therefore to resist anthropocentric myopia.
Laur P is a trans, queer and neurodivergent artist based in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal and in St-Catharines (Ontario), where they are currently pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brock University. They hold an MFA from the University of Guelph (2021) and a BFA from Concordia University with Great Distinction (2015). Throughout their academic background, they received several awards including the Joseph-Armand-Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC, University of Guelph) and the Betty Goodwin Prize in Studio Arts (Concordia University), and their work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Their work has recently been exhibited in Montréal (Galerie Nicolas Robert, McClure Gallery, McBride Contemporary), Toronto (Galerie Nicolas Robert, the Plumb, Birch Contemporary) and New York (Sargent's Daughters). They recently exhibited two solo presentations, at Sargent’s Daughters (New York, August 2023) and at Galerie Nicolas Robert (Toronto, February-March 2024). Laur P's work is part of the collections of the Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec, Desjardins, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Hydro-Québec, the Royal Bank of Canada and Medcan, among others.Laur P is represented by Galerie Nicolas Robert.
Recent exhibitions
Chapitre III - Group exhibition
From April 4 to May 25, 2024
If Daffodil Was an Egg
From February 15 to March 23, 2024
Art Toronto
From October 27-29, 2023
A Scape Unnamed
From September 11 to October 16, 2021
Spongieuses
From December 1st to January 26, 2019
