AMALIA LAURENT
Bio
A member of the Genthasari group, a gamelan ensemble, and trained in the batik technique by MasTatang, Amalia Laurent practices Indonesian and European traditions to create a body of work that includes installations, performances, and sculptures.
Amalia Laurent’s work focuses on the decomposition of dye and wax on fabrics, which form the primary structure of her installations. Allowing for an unpredictable flow of materials, she uses this technique as a projection of a territory, reflecting the philosophy of this ancestral art form. Conceived in situ, and through the use of photography as a form of memory, these works are personifications of the natural or architectural landscapes into which these installations are embedded. In this way, she explores topographical, geographical and cartographic themes—whether real or imagined—and offers an observation of the visible and the invisible, of presence and absence, of the real and the beyond.
Born in 1992 in Paris, Amalia (who lives and works between Paris and Nîmes) is a Franco-Indonesian artist. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (London, UK) in 2018 and is currently a PhD student in medieval history at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris, FR). In 2024–2025, she was a resident at the Villa Medici (Rome, IT). Her recent exhibitions have taken place at Espace Croisée, Roubaix (2026); Villa Medici, Rome (2025); Château Lacoste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade (2025); the Museum of the History of Immigration, Paris (2024); ARCO, Madrid (2024); Anne Barrault, Paris (2024); Sainte-Chapelle, Paris (2023).
Her works are held in the collections of the Museum of the History of Immigration (Paris, FR).