Laura Garcia Karras

Laura Garcia-Karras, born in 1988, is a painter whose work explores the boundaries of pictorial matter and the relationship between representation and nature. After studying at the La Cambre school in Brussels and the Beaux-Arts of Paris, she was honoured by the Crédit Agricole Foundation and was awarded the Prix Antoine Marin in 2018. Currently resident at Poush Manifesto in Aubervilliers, in 2024 she presented a solo exhibition at Mo.Co. Montpellier Contemporain.
Her work, focused on painting, questions the materiality of the medium through processes that blend figuration and abstraction. Her exploration of plant motifs, particularly flowers, goes beyond simple aesthetic representation to transcend their symbolism. For her, painting becomes a space for reflection, both poetic and philosophical. Using techniques that combine clean surfaces and free brushstrokes, she creates compositions that play with light and depth, superimposing scalpel-cut shapes and flat areas of colour.