Laftmonk
Painter & Textile artist | France / USA
Laftmonk (1973) is a French-Algerian artist blending textile, painting, and collage to explore identity and social construction. Influenced by Francis Bacon and street art, her work ranges from intricate textile sculptures to surreal psychological portraits.
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Born and raised in France from Algerian descent, visual artist, designer and social art practitioner Laftmonk (1973) did her master in visual arts and textile in France with additional studies in sculpture at Stanford University in the US. She spent a large part of her artistic career in the US before returning to France in 2018.
She mixes complex geometrical textile webbing techniques with painting, photography and collage. Laftmonk’s recent work focuses on the question of identity and social construction, a study she calls ID#, captivating a social psychological portrait of modern societies in the fast-paced stream of information. Her exploration takes an alternative shape between textile sculpture and painting, combining an imbricated mimesis and a constructive geometry while generating coinciding
perspectives at the intersection of our realities. This results in subdued surrealistic psychological portraits clearly influenced by Francis Bacon as well as more colorful abstract images with streaks of street art and intricate textile sculptures and installations.
Laftmonk has exhibited her work internationally in renowned museums and galleries, amongst which the Museum of Art and Industry André-Diligent in France; Cheongju Art Center, Korea; De Cordova Museum, Massachusetts; Santa Fe Art institute, New Mexico; Blue Star Contemporary, Texas, and at The Old Mint, San Francisco CA. Her work can be found in private collections internationally including in Los Angeles, Washington, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris.
Born and raised in France from Algerian descent, visual artist, designer and social art practitioner Laftmonk (1973) did her master in visual arts and textile in France with additional studies in sculpture at Stanford University in the US. She spent a large part of her artistic career in the US before returning to France in 2018.
She mixes complex geometrical textile webbing techniques with painting, photography and collage. Laftmonk’s recent work focuses on the question of identity and social construction, a study she calls ID#, captivating a social psychological portrait of modern societies in the fast-paced stream of information. Her exploration takes an alternative shape between textile sculpture and painting, combining an imbricated mimesis and a constructive geometry while generating coinciding
perspectives at the intersection of our realities. This results in subdued surrealistic psychological portraits clearly influenced by Francis Bacon as well as more colorful abstract images with streaks of street art and intricate textile sculptures and installations.
Laftmonk has exhibited her work internationally in renowned museums and galleries, amongst which the Museum of Art and Industry André-Diligent in France; Cheongju Art Center, Korea; De Cordova Museum, Massachusetts; Santa Fe Art institute, New Mexico; Blue Star Contemporary, Texas, and at The Old Mint, San Francisco CA. Her work can be found in private collections internationally including in Los Angeles, Washington, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris.