Laurent Le Bel-Roux

Region: MFA Annual

Website: https://laurentlebelroux.com/

City / State: Austin, TX

 My practice is grounded in an intuitive approach to painting and drawing. Through abstraction, I develop new visual languages that question the relationship between body and mind. Informed by phenomenological and semiotic considerations, my work investigates the interplay between sensory receptivity and cognitive interpretation. Themes such as transformation, memory, expression, and time emerge in the work as ways to reflect on the human condition and expand the frameworks through which we perceive and engage with our surroundings.

The concept of interference plays a central role, both as a visual phenomenon and a conceptual tool. It speaks to the filter of our subjectivity that shapes our perception and guides our interpretive capacities. The use of recurring motifs such as camouflage, grids, and meshes embodies this polarity between illusion and certainty, structure and fragmentation.

My creative process is rooted in an experimental engagement with materials where gestures are layered, erased, and fused. I navigate between intention and improvisation, introducing constraints and inviting serendipity to generate visual tension, while maintaining an openness to potentialities.