L'artiste
Laura HENNO
Crédit photo : Mohamed Bourouissa
Born in 1976, in Croix
Photographer and filmmaker, Laura Henno builds a resolutely political body of work in which each project sheds light on parallel realities, often shaped by displacement or migration. Through films and photographs, she explores the geopolitics of the Comoros archipelago, tracing the complexity of migration in this region of the Indian Ocean. She is particularly interested in clandestine lives formed within the invisible interstices of Mayotte, following its separation from the rest of the archipelago. Favoring an immersive approach within the communities she follows over several years, the artist builds strong relationships with her protagonists. Her series Outremonde depicts the inhabitants of a settlement lost in the Sonoran Desert in California. Slab City, a true no man’s land enclosed within a military base, is inhabited by marginalised individuals abandoned by a society from which they have detached themselves. By illuminating the uncertain destinies of forgotten populations, Laura Henno explores a geopolitics of the margins, in dialogue with the great tradition of American documentary photography. After studying photography at ENSAV La Cambre, Laura Henno continued her studies in cinema at Le Fresnoy.
Winner of the Discovery Award at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles in 2007, and later the SAM Art Project Award in 2019, the artist has held numerous solo exhibitions in France and abroad, including at the Palais de Tokyo, Frac Auvergne, the Musée de la Photographie de Charleroi, and the Centre Wifredo Lam in recent years, and has participated in many group exhibitions such as at Louvre-Lens, the Palais de la Porte Dorée, Le Nouveau Printemps, and Nuit Blanche. In 2025, the Centre Pompidou acquired an important video triptych.
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