Laure Boulay – 2024

Born in Morocco, Laure Boulay began her career in journalism before turning to sculpture. After the words, it was her hands that took the floor. Her work is expressed mainly in bronze, but also in iron and aluminum.

Reluctant to accept linear biographies, she believes that it is her work that tells her story. “My artistic birth may date back to 2005, with a pile of clay on a kitchen table,” she says. “But in reality, it’s rooted in a long process, which began in childhood, when I was already splashing around in the mud, shaping old oak trees with roots as numerous as their branches.”

Self-taught, she never took an academic course in the plastic arts. “I’ve never been to the École des Beaux-Arts or the Université du Dessin,” she confides. “I don’t have any artistic qualifications, so I became a journalist.”  But one day, words were no longer enough. Writing trapped emotions in a straitjacket of letters, while matter could be kneaded, deformed and sculpted to give shape to buried anxieties.

At the heart of his work lies an obsession: the human being, prisoner of himself. This thread runs through all her work, and is reflected in her sculptures, which are marked by tension, confinement and resilience.

Her solo exhibitions include Brave New World at Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris. She has also participated in several group shows, including Monologue à deux in Meaux and the OSTRALE biennial in Dresden, where she has exhibited several times. Her sculpture ELLE has been shown at the Salon d’Automne, OSTRALE (Dresden), Potsdam and Amsterdam.

Today, her work is part of several private collections in Europe and Asia.

Laure has been present in Vullierens since 2024 with two installations: Scala Spina in the Château cellar and Les Autres in the Courtyard.