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Laurie Joly is a French artist born in Lyon (France), in 1984. She develops an artistic research on Body and Identity, which investigates the question of the protean Power and its effects on the Body in its physical and sensory existence and in its consciousness of being in space and time. During her studies at the Saint-Etienne School of Art and Design (France) and the Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts (Slovakia), she developed her artistic practice of Photography, Video, Performance, and Installation. In Paris (France), she continued her work in the field of Research in Arts and New Technologies at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and then, at the same time, in the Laboratory Form of Mobility / Mobile Screens and Interactive Stories at the Paris National School of Decorative Arts and in the Laboratory Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Arts at the Paris 8 University.
Her multidisciplinary artwork is in the field of Visual Arts. Often halfway between mediums and Art forms, it stays away from any categorization to appear instead as a language of and through the Body. Laurie Joly exhibits her work in France and internationally in Museums, Contemporary Art Centers, and Galleries : La Villa du Parc (Annemasse, France), MUCEM (Marseille, France), L’Angle (La Roche-sur-Foron, France), La Crèmerie (Plateau d’Assy, France), la Galerie Hebert (Paris, France), la Maison Forte de Hautetour (Saint-Gervais, France), la Friche Belle de Mai (Marseille, France). She participates in Contemporary Art, Video Art, and Film festivals : Traverse Vidéo (Toulouse, France) les Instants Vidéo (Marseille, France), Oodaaq (Rennes, France), IFPA (Drama, Greece), FAB (Bath, England), Art Souterrain (Montreal, Canada), CineAutopsia (Bogotá, Colombia). She speaks in Art Research conferences and seminars : National Institut of History of Art (Paris, France), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme-Alsace (Strasbourg, France), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme-Aquitaine (Bordeaux, France), University of Tallinn (Estonia), Institute for Theater, Audiovisual and Cinematic Studies (Beirut, Lebanon), Higher Institute of Fine Arts (Sousse, Tunisia). Some of her works are part of the collections of the Fassiaty Video Fund (Paris, France) and L'Angle (La Roche-sur-Foron, France) as well as of private collections.
Since 2016, Laurie Joly has been leading Art workshops in Universities, High Schools, Middle Schools, Elementary Schools and in Hospitals in the city of Paris and in the departments of Île-de-France, Haute-Savoie and Loire (France). Since 2024, she has been a lecturer at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne, France, where she teaches Video-performance.
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