Cathala Laurence
Laurence Cathala (born 1981) lives and works in Lyon.
She studied at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the Emily Carr Institute of Art in Vancouver. Through exhibition, writing, publishing, and reading projects, she explores the meeting points between text and drawing, writing and orality, space and narration, history and fiction. Her artistic practice combines drawing, painting, installation, and publishing, and develops in close dialogue with literature. In 2024, on the occasion of an exhibition at BF15 in Lyon, she published Les Versions with Sombres torrents, a book whose texts have also unfolded within wall installations over the past several years.
A professor of art at ISDAT (Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse) and of graphic design at ENSBA (École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon), she teaches drawing and image-making in connection with editorial and writing practices.