The artist is questioning the world and it is exactly this consideration that we seek to share in the context of each manifestation organized at the space of Memory of the Future. The works presented seek often to address to topics about humanity, society and the world. Each exhibition is also a reflective tool on the artist's process from its conception to its various constituents from his/her choice of composition or of materials, combining process and emotions that will lead to an encounter between ethics and aesthetics.Laurence Wyllie art's reflects this attitude between her fine reception and perception of the world, by offering her sensative and unique points of view.
Memory of the Future aiming to transmit to all generations a message of openness and acceptance of all pluralism and differences, in order to foster mutual understanding between cultures and individuals for a better living together, in respect. It is in this same vein that Laurence Wyllie has pursued the arts in her life.
It is an honor for us to host this retrospective of an artist as committed as Laurence was, using the arts to evoke thinking, criticism, resistance, while learning and sharing her production and attentions with others.
Laurence expressed her intense questioning about the universe through textures, lines, and colors, as well as with words and staging. Her work represents different series and periods of expressions, related each to global and personal realities.
Biography
From Paris, Brussels, and later on to Washington DC USA with her husband Andy, whom she married in 1999, and where she began to exhibit and sell her works to collectors. In 2006, she and Andy moved with their two young sons Evan and Baptiste to Kinshasa, DR Congo. An artist's residency at the Institute Français will lead her to exhibit her works at the center, and then after to be assigned as a program designer and a cultural animator for the fine arts program of the CCF.
In order to diversify the fine arts mediations she encourages exchanges and encounters between artists, creators and the public. She will inspire ephemeral initiatives that will lead to a more permanent mode, like a set up for an outdoor signage project at the Halle The Gombe (CCF), which will gather the works of Bienvenu Nanga, André Lukifimpa with the collaboration of Freddy Tsimba. their works can still be seen at the CCF in Kinshasa.
Writing has always been part of her creativity, but it defiantly took shape in Kinshasa in the form of text for a spectacle "Le grand tour", written for the stage of the CCF in Kinshasa. The manuscript will be presented during the exhibition.
In January 2010, Laurence and her two sons are among the victims of the earthquake that ravaged Haïti.
Today, it is at the initiative of Andy Wyllie, with the support of all the family and friends, that we are able to present to you this exhibition that celebrates the strong expression and attentions Laurence offered to the world.