Lucie Laflorentie was born in 1983, she lives and works in the Occitan region. Graduated from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse, she obtained her DNSEP Art in 2008.
The artist's work is based on the articulation between her approach to drawing and her experience of landscape. Nourished by a deep attachment to the peasant world that she comes from – a world based on respect for the earth, where tools and manual work occupy a central place – the artist activates during her residencies her strong interest in the material, and tries to measure her research on the scale of a territory, its geology, its history.
In 2019, Lucie Laflorentie was awarded a grant from the Aide à la Mobilité de la région Occitanie and completed a three-month residency at Galerie Mayeur Projects in the United States in the landscapes of New Mexico. This will be followed by a solo exhibition, CATCH THE DUST.
Impelled by the network Air de Midi and La Maison Salvan, she is carrying out a research residency at the Cube Independent Art Room in Rabat (Morocco) in September 2019, and will return in February 2021 thanks to the AIC. Winner of the project Le 1% artistique, for the construction of a high school in the Occitan region, she is deepening her research work around the material and is preparing a sculptural ensemble combining the Grand Antique marble of Aubert and ceramics.