Sérendipité

Brazil, Amazon forest. Its domination over the jungle can’t be questioned. Visible for several kilometers around, it overlooks the vegetation, still, asleep. Its steep slopes evoke its former nature and power. Its silence reassures and stirs the curiosity. The volcano. Laure Winants has used it as one of the most important objects of artistic study. The observation is key in her approach, like many scientists. She creates a dialogue with nature, a dialogue with science.

Belgium, Brussels. Experimentation is an integral part of Laure Winants’ creative process. Her raw material, photographs taken worldwide or collected from scientists, feeds a complex technique, called photoengraving, where chance and failures occupy a preponderant place. Rarely meeting the expectations, the outcome brings a good dose of surprise and amazement. Serendipity and poetry meet up.

Brazil, Amazon forest. Laure Winants’ photography immortalizes a moving nature. As fire has conquered this idyllic landscape, it will never be similar to what the artist could observe many times. The hope for seeing it again and feeding a fast-moving artistic production yet remains present.

Belgium, Liege. An artwork usually conceals the work that is essential to its realization. Reflection, research and tests are invisible. And yet they are crucial in a creation process like the volcano cliffs that conceal a crater and the magma that generated it ! Laure Winants’ artworks are the result of numerous stages, initiated by researches and exchanges with scientists and materialized thanks to photoengraving. The installation dedicated to AAC partially illustrates this line of thought. A window to an artwork and its evolution.