Laurence Perratzi is a French fig­u­ra­tive artist who explores the expres­sion of the body. Her work is a reflec­tion on move­ment, strongly influ­enced by her back­ground as an ath­lete, where poise and bal­ance are para­mount. The fig­ures defy grav­ity with sub­tle poses or some­times snap­shots of the body in action. 

Progressively, the bal­ance and flu­id­ity of these bod­ies become an inter­pre­ta­tion that inte­grates them into a story, stag­ing them in a sit­u­a­tion that chal­lenges, makes us smile or some­times questions.

This is how Laurence uses cir­cles, frames, nylon threads rep­re­sent­ing the rain, clouds in order to stage these bod­ies and bring out this inter­ac­tion that links them to the world around them. This great free­dom of work extends through the explo­ration of new ele­ments such as mat­ter and tex­ture. The tex­ture, evolves from smooth to a more rough, irreg­u­lar tex­ture, more expres­sive and alive accord­ing to Laurence. She also plays with the some­times sur­pris­ing dia­logue between mate­ri­als such as paper, fab­ric, jes­monite, polyurethane foam, unex­pected mate­ri­als or those con­sid­ered “incom­pat­i­ble” with the nobil­ity of bronze. These asso­ci­a­tions allow her to breathe sim­plic­ity, free­dom, life and warmth into the bronze that is so vibrant and extra­or­di­nary dur­ing the cast­ing process but which regains a cer­tain rigid­ity when it cools. Laurence likes to cre­ate new bal­ances that defy grav­ity, make the body speak and move towards an aes­thetic unbur­dened by let­ting go.

Laurence Perratzi grad­u­ated from a Business School in 1993 and from a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, and began her pro­fes­sional life in Finance. She first worked for BNP in Hong Kong (in Private Banking), then for Gap in San Francisco (in International Treasury) and finally for Letsbuyit, in France, Spain and Italy (as Managing Director). Although enthu­si­as­tic about her finan­cial career, Laurence dis­cov­ered her pas­sion for sculp­ture in 2000 and thus began her artis­tic tra­jec­tory. She really devel­oped it when she arrived in London in 2005, where she lived for fif­teen years. 

Today Laurence is back in Paris. Her stu­dio is at the Frigos de Paris. Laurence exhibits in numer­ous con­tem­po­rary art fairs and gal­leries around the world.