Amalia Laurent

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

Her residency project finds its inspiration in the angklung, a portable Javanese musical instrument emitting a single note for one person, often used during processions.Drawing on its radicality, the focus of this artistic exploration, the artist aims to question collective efficacy in an urban context and to grasp the way sound can transform and reveal spatial dynamics in the city. Thus, this confrontation aims to explore the influence of walking and sound resonance on the perception and appropriation of space, while drawing parallels between Javanese and Western musical practices in the Middle Ages.