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Laurie Joly is a French artist born in 1984, in Lyon, France. 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 in France and the Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts in Slovakia, she developed her artistic practice of Photography, Video, Performance, and Installation. In Paris, she continued her work in the Arts and New Technologies Research field 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 Contemporary Art Centers and Galleries such as La Villa du Parc in Annemasse, L’Angle in La Roche-sur-Foron, La Crèmerie in Plateau d’Assy, La Maison Forte de Hautetour in Saint-Gervais, La Galerie Hebert in Paris ; Le MUCEM and La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille, France. She participates in Contemporary Art, Video Art, and Film festivals such as Traverse Vidéo in Toulouse, Les Instants Vidéo of Marseille, Oodaaq in Rennes, France, IFPA in Drama, Greece, FAB in Bath, England, Art Souterrain in Montreal, Canada and CineAutopsia in Bogotá, Colombia. She speaks in Art Research conferences and seminars at the National Institut of History of Art in Paris, the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme-Alsace in Strasbourg, the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme-Aquitaine in Bordeaux, France and at the University of Tallinn in Estonia, the Institute for Theater, Audiovisual and Cinematic Studies in Beirut, Lebanon and the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Sousse, Tunisia. Some of her works are part of the collections of the Fassiaty Video Fund in Paris and of L'Angle in 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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