Lou Chapelle (aka Laurence Payot)
I am a cross-disciplinary artist, weaving socially engaged and participatory approaches with digital and new technologies. I work in collaboration with people and communities – local or global, established or imagined for the time of a project – to create collective rituals and objects that question and re-invent our sense of belonging.
Within my work, people are given tools to connect with one another and experience the everyday from a collective perspective. The exchange between the materials and the people that form the artworks is key for the creative alchemy to happen. Individual feelings and stories become interwoven into sound, video, or visual pieces, often coming together in multilayered forms.
“For Laurence, the public realm is the perfect stage to surprise and inspire people, to make you snap out of your daily routine and look up to see the world fresh.”
Eva De Groote, Curator and Core Member Artistic Researcher at Timelab, Ghent, Belgium.
