Idols IX Sculpture

Laurent Valera is a multidisciplinary visual artist. He explores many fields of contemporary visual art: painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance. His curiosity and his desires lead him to shift his fields of action in order to experiment and develop transdisciplinary projects such as the contemporary dance piece "Souffles" in collaboration with choreographer Christine Hassid. Like an archaeologist digging into geological strata, Laurent Valera explores the liquid spaces of water. Water is like a surface that reveals a depth in which we can speculate, like a material to think about, to dream about, to study, to recreate. Laurent Valera sees water as the structuring element of life, both in its form and in its aspirations, carrying and traversing living things for over three billion years. It is on this basis that he constructs a profusion of proposals that enable him to question both life and the workings of our contemporary societies. Through his work and his artistic proposals, Laurent Valera pursues his understanding of life and the living. He trained in self-induced cognitive trance with Corine Sombrun and her team at the TranceLab Institute in 2022. His creative journey is a life path leading to spiritual development.