Laurence Broydé, a French artist in residence at AXENÉO7 artist-run centre in winter 2023.
Introduced to dance at a very young age, her frequent visits to the conservatory shows will
inevitably and durably trigger a fascination for the "heterotopic" places that she will never cease to invent. She develops numerous collaborations with storytellers and puppeteers for
whom she designs painted canvases and sets for shows, then sets that give her the
opportunity to leave the frame and the 2D space to experiment with other dimensions. In
2000, she joined the artist collective Alaplage (dissolved in 2007) which is also an
exhibition space run by artists.
For a long time, she worked as a mediator at the FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, then taught graphic
design in graduate school. She has been living and working in Nantes for the past three
years, where she has a studio within the BONUS collective, Ateliers d'artistes de la ville de Nantes. She has received several grants from the Direction Régionale des Affaires
Culturelles and the Région Pays de la Loire. Her research involves shifts between art, design, crafts and graphics.
Laurence Broydé, a French artist in residence at AXENÉO7 artist-run centre in winter 2023,
talks about her practice in the project Artist's Words- Laurence Broydé, which straddles the border between art and craft, and is infused with an eco-feminist vision of working with materials. In this interview, she describes the process of her two months spent in Quebec, and explains the influence of the environment on her work.
This residency is part of a partnership resulting from a cross-residencies agreement
concluded between the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and le Lieu
Unique (Nantes, France).
Artist's Words- Laurence Broydé is a Carte Blanche project created by our partners at AXENÉO7.
Founded in 1983, AXENÉO7 is an artist-run centre dedicated to advocating, promoting, and
exhibiting the visual arts, while developing critical discourse around them. It is a gathering
place for sharing and experimentation. Through a critically engaged program, it endeavours
to expand the parameters of artistic practice and its presentation, and to improve artists’
conditions for production.
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