Amalia Laurent

Amalia Laurent (1992, France) is an artist and researcher who lives and works between Paris and Nîmes. She addresses topographical, geographical, and cartographic themes that are both real and fantasized. Her obsession with alternative realities has given birth to a corpus of works – dyeings, installations, performances, sculptures – that makes the frontiers between real and/or parallel worlds tangible. She is currently conducting research at the EHESS on the links between architectural arrangements and processional practices, and she is also a member of the Javanese music group Genthasari from the Pantcha Indra association.

Her residency project finds its inspiration in the angklung, a portable Javanese musical instrument that emits a single note for one person, often used in processions. Drawing on its radical nature, the central point of this artistic exploration, Laurent aims to question collective efficacy in an urban context and to grasp the way in which sound can transform and reveal spatial dynamics in the city. So this comparison seeks to explore the influence of walking and acoustic resonance on the perception and appropriation of space, while establishing parallels between Javanese and Western musical practices in the Middle Ages.

Portrait © Tony Trichanh