Belgium
Laure Winants:
TIME CAPSULE / PHENOMENA
Visual artist and researcher Laure Winants grounds her work in scientific data and observation of the environment and geology. Her practice draws viewers into timescales beyond human comprehension and evokes the earth’s primordial state.
In Time Capsule, she placed ice cores extracted from the Svalbard permafrost directly onto light-sensitive paper, documenting their gradual melting. Crystalline patterns and ancient air bubbles, trapped for millennia, emerged as visual artworks through polarized light. Phenomena was created using prints made with pigments derived from volcanic matter, inspired by crater maps, seismic activity charts, and satellite imagery. The work originated from fieldwork in Iceland, where Winants sampled lava, measured volcanic gases, and studied the shifting glaciers.
Her practice bridges the natural sciences and art, allowing us to experience the vast narratives of the earth.
Visual artist and researcher Laure Winants grounds her work in scientific data and observation of the environment and geology. Her practice draws viewers into timescales beyond human comprehension and evokes the earth’s primordial state.
In Time Capsule, she placed ice cores extracted from the Svalbard permafrost directly onto light-sensitive paper, documenting their gradual melting. Crystalline patterns and ancient air bubbles, trapped for millennia, emerged as visual artworks through polarized light. Phenomena was created using prints made with pigments derived from volcanic matter, inspired by crater maps, seismic activity charts, and satellite imagery. The work originated from fieldwork in Iceland, where Winants sampled lava, measured volcanic gases, and studied the shifting glaciers.
Her practice bridges the natural sciences and art, allowing us to experience the vast narratives of the earth.
Visual artist and researcher Laure Winants grounds her work in scientific data and observation of the environment and geology. Her practice draws viewers into timescales beyond human comprehension and evokes the earth’s primordial state.
In Time Capsule, she placed ice cores extracted from the Svalbard permafrost directly onto light-sensitive paper, documenting their gradual melting. Crystalline patterns and ancient air bubbles, trapped for millennia, emerged as visual artworks through polarized light. Phenomena was created using prints made with pigments derived from volcanic matter, inspired by crater maps, seismic activity charts, and satellite imagery. The work originated from fieldwork in Iceland, where Winants sampled lava, measured volcanic gases, and studied the shifting glaciers.
Her practice bridges the natural sciences and art, allowing us to experience the vast narratives of the earth.
Laure Winants is a researcher and field-based visual artist (BE, FR). Winants set up her artist’s studio in the heart of the Arctic ice pack. Embarked on a four-month polar expedition, she joined a team of multidisciplinary researchers to understand the evolution of this vast territory, where man is only a tiny part of life. Immersed in this white desert, she uses techniques developed specifically to capture the optical and luminous phenomena unique to the region. Using environmental sensors, the interaction of matter itself has become the creator of the work, putting human intervention to one side. Laure Winants makes this data tangible and emotionally perceptible, highlighting the interdependence of ecosystems and creating encounters in more-than-human temporalities. In this way, the artist creates a dialogue between art, the natural sciences, and technology.
Laure has exhibited her work internationally in Berlin (DE), Reykjavik (IS), Brussels (BE), Paris (FR), and soon in Stockholm (SE), Luxembourg (LU), and Osaka (JP). Her work has entered the collection of several foundations, such as the Fondation des Arts du Luxembourg and the Palais de Liège (BE).
Laure Winants is a researcher and field-based visual artist (BE, FR). Winants set up her artist’s studio in the heart of the Arctic ice pack. Embarked on a four-month polar expedition, she joined a team of multidisciplinary researchers to understand the evolution of this vast territory, where man is only a tiny part of life. Immersed in this white desert, she uses techniques developed specifically to capture the optical and luminous phenomena unique to the region. Using environmental sensors, the interaction of matter itself has become the creator of the work, putting human intervention to one side. Laure Winants makes this data tangible and emotionally perceptible, highlighting the interdependence of ecosystems and creating encounters in more-than-human temporalities. In this way, the artist creates a dialogue between art, the natural sciences, and technology.
Laure has exhibited her work internationally in Berlin (DE), Reykjavik (IS), Brussels (BE), Paris (FR), and soon in Stockholm (SE), Luxembourg (LU), and Osaka (JP). Her work has entered the collection of several foundations, such as the Fondation des Arts du Luxembourg and the Palais de Liège (BE).
Laure Winants is a researcher and field-based visual artist (BE, FR). Winants set up her artist’s studio in the heart of the Arctic ice pack. Embarked on a four-month polar expedition, she joined a team of multidisciplinary researchers to understand the evolution of this vast territory, where man is only a tiny part of life. Immersed in this white desert, she uses techniques developed specifically to capture the optical and luminous phenomena unique to the region. Using environmental sensors, the interaction of matter itself has become the creator of the work, putting human intervention to one side. Laure Winants makes this data tangible and emotionally perceptible, highlighting the interdependence of ecosystems and creating encounters in more-than-human temporalities. In this way, the artist creates a dialogue between art, the natural sciences, and technology.
Laure has exhibited her work internationally in Berlin (DE), Reykjavik (IS), Brussels (BE), Paris (FR), and soon in Stockholm (SE), Luxembourg (LU), and Osaka (JP). Her work has entered the collection of several foundations, such as the Fondation des Arts du Luxembourg and the Palais de Liège (BE).
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