Laurence Poirier
About Laurence
Born in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang, Laurence Poirier holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Concordia University. After more than a decade in commercial photography, she has shifted her practice toward a slower, more reflective approach, where artistic gesture becomes a space for attention and transformation.
Her work explores materiality, touch, and processes of metamorphosis through photography and sculpture. By combining materials such as clay, paper, and photographic images, she examines our relationship to the tangible world in an era marked by digitalization and the acceleration of time. Inspired by Thing Theory and contemporary ecological thought, she approaches matter as an experiential partner, capable of agency and reflecting our own vulnerability.
Laurence Poirier has presented her work in the context of the Regarde! project (Montréal, 2023) with an installation on Bain Mathieu, and participated in a residency on the island of Gotland, Sweden, where she exhibited her research at the Brucebo Foundation in 2024.
