Laura Palau (1993) lives and works between Benlloc (Spain), where she maintains her studio and cultivates her fields, and Ghent (Belgium), where she develops a film research on grafting and pruning in the academic context of KASK.
He studied Fine Arts in Valencia, Spain (UPV), where he also completed a Master in Art Production. Subsequently, he furthered his training in international programmes, including the Master Photography & Society in The Hague, The Netherlands. In addition, she has participated in seminars and workshops led by artists such as Joan Fontcuberta, Susan Meiselas, Laia Abril and Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, among others.
Her practice, based on storytelling across disciplines, reacts to climate and social emergencies, turning the audiences and communities she collaborates with into participatory laboratories. Drawing on feminist perspectives and the rural knowledge in which she grew up, her work interweaves rituals of care, seeking to reconcile dichotomies such as human vs. nature, rural vs. urban and local vs. global. Through this approach, she challenges binarisms established by Western academia.
Since 2017, his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as PhotoEspaña (Madrid, ES), GlogauAIR (Berlin, DE), PALMA Festival (Caen, FR), KunstpodiumT and Dupho (Tilburg, Amsterdam, NL), Helsinki Photomedia (Helsinki, FI), IVAM and CCCC (Valencia, ES), Torino PhotoFestival and AlbumArte (Turin, Rome, IT), EACC, Festival Imaginaria, Fundación Caja Castellón and Espacio Menador (Castellón, ES), KASK (Ghent, BE), Las Cigarreras (Alicante, ES), among others.
In recent years, she has been awarded the Alfons Roig Prize (2024), the La Caixa Fellowships Abroad (2023) and the Dávalos Fletcher Visual Arts Scholarship (2023). She was also recognised as one of the most important photographers in the world. 30 Women Under 30 by ARTPIL (2023). She has also been a finalist for the Princess of Girona Award (2025), the Mislata Miquel Navarro Biennial Award (2024), the Senyera Award (2023) and the Enaire Award (2019), among others.
He is currently working on a solo exhibition at the Museo del Centro del Carmen (Valencia), which will include his 16mm film Les tretzenades, a story about the origin and practice of weather forecasting in the Valencian region. The exhibition will be complemented by other works that explore the emotional tensions of being rooted to the land.
