Miriam Laura Leonardi

Miriam Laura leonardi was in residence at LUMA Arles from march to may 2021.

Born in 1985 in Lörrach (Germany). She lives and works in Zurich (Switzerland). Miriam Laura Leonardi navigates through a variety of media, questioning language and signs as a construction of meaning, which are subject to change over time, and examines social norms with an often ironic undertone and the minimal aesthetics of conceptual art. She relies on the potential of appropriation to uncover the structures that shape capitalist commodity culture and with a surreal exploration of thought she produces enigmatic objects of desire, such as fake ready-mades, ephemeral installations and sculptural work as well as videos and video-performances. For her residency in Arles she foresees to work for the first time in ceramics to create vases after a Sicilian tradition for decorative domestic purposes.