Laura Malacart is a visual artist working across media: installation, moving image, performance, photography and text.

My practice is conceived as a strategy to explore contemporary and historical identities and their agency. As per each project, the work is informed by research across the humanities, social sciences and sciences. In this sense art practice is conceived as a methodology or a tool to open up dialogues, especially when it comes to questions around Othering, social justice and exploitation - of humans, living beings and the planet. What are the counterstrategies to be employed to re-address imbalances? Given the nature of the work I relish working collaboratively to frame lived experiences excluded by dominant narratives, the use of documentation and textual sources.

After studying Comparative Languages and Literatures in Italy, I was educated in fine art in the UK with a First Class BA at the University of Leeds (1993-97), an MA in Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art (1997-99) and a AHRC funded PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2007-11).

I have worked in higher education for a number of London institutions teaching across practice and theory subjects and a visiting lecturer internationally. I also worked in an editorial and writers role for an art/experimental moving image magazine and published freelance in the area of moving image and fine art. My work has been disseminated in the UK and internationally via museums, institutions, residencies, screenings and project spaces.

A detailed CV is available.