Laurie Charles (BE, 1987), lives and works in Brussels. In her drawings, paintings, sculptures and videos, Laurie Charles depicts characters, symbols and situations inspired by reality or historical stories, of which she offers a feminist rereading. Drawing deeply from her own personal experience with an autoimmune disease, Charles creates largescale fabric pieces and soft furnishings that respond to ideas around the body through a macro lens. She undertakes to rewrite an alternative history of medicine to the one which has been engraved, where care, cycles, ecological disaster, and healing take precedence. Charles’ way of working is inextricably tied to her ways of living, as such the personal is always also political.

Among other venues, her work has been exhibited at Institut d’art contemporain – Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Domaine de Chamarande – Chamarande, CRAC Occitanie – Sète, Mécènes du Sud – Montpellier, Salon de Montrouge – Montrouge, Terzo Fronte – Roma, Wiels – Brussels, Efremidis Gallery in Berlin, Grazer Kunstverein – Graz, CIAP Kunstverein – Hasselt, 1646 – project space for contemporary art – The Hague, Nanjing International Art Festival – Nanjing, Beursschouwburg – Brussels, Komplot – Brussels, and Le Commissariat – Paris. Her works are part of several collections in Belgium and France, including Mu.ZEE in Ostend, the FRAC Ile-de-France in Paris and the Domaine départemental de Chamarande in Chamarande.

CONTACT : lauriecharles.be@gmail.com