Laurene Praget is a multidisciplinary artist, bilingual French and Spanish, raised in Brittany, France. She's currently living between New York and France, after being based several years in Mexico City.
She conducts an intimate, organic and poetic documentary work that testifies and archives women's lives, telling realities and stories, paying tribute and coming to show with delicacy and care what is hidden or ignored.
She works through painting, focusing this practice since 2017 on painting portraits of missing women in Mexico City from the notices of disappearance that she encountered daily in the street, as a tribute and to resist against their invisibilization.
After several projects and collaborations about violence against women in Mexico, she began to see her artistic concerns extend toward being present in the world as a woman. She developed projects in both analog and digital photography, using the image as an archiving of women's (hi)stories within contemporary concerns and using a poetic and intimate vocabulary. She also began to question her own relationship to this world, she seeking a sensitive form of undamaged femininity requiring a healing process. Within this movement, she began to involve her own body in her projects to observe and try to express her vision of femalehood, connected to the Earth and other women, documenting the strength of vulnerability, through self portrait video and more broadly through experimental video poetry.
As a painter and photographer, her work has been exhibited in Mexico City, Paris and Barcelona, among others. Her short film "te miro a los ojos mientras voy sanando lo que me dañaron" realized in 2021 has been selected in many international festivals, including in New York City, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Santiago de Chile and Tabriz in Iran where it received the prize for Best Experimental Film during the First Women Film Festival in 2022. Her short video poetry "Frontera" received the Best Dance Film Award during the Divine & Feminine Film Festival in New York in 2023.
