Poolscape #1, 2009, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
In Poolscapes Laval revisits a familiar subject, the swimming pool. Although continuing to employ a highly saturated palette with tightly composed imagery, this new series marks a departure from her previous work – The Pool – in both tone and depth. The images take the viewer through levels of dream-like reflections, painterly layers that oscillate between abstraction and representation. These large scale tableaux serve not as mere illustrations of the physical experience of the water or the leisure it usually represents, but rather use form, color and texture to depict a world on the edge of the real and surreal. Here, swimming pools act as a metaphor, a mirror whose surface reflects the surrounding world but is also a gate into another - dreamlike - world, a sort of mise en abyme. Consequently, the distorted bodies and landscapes begin to echo physical dissolutions and shifting states of mind as the water blurs the threshold between the mundane and the sublime.
Poolscape #3, 2009, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape #19, 2010, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape #90, 2011, 30x30" c-print (also available in 20x20")
Poolscape #7, 2010, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape #43, 2010, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape #100, 2011, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape #80, 2010, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape #82, 2010, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape diptych (meting boy), 2010, c-prints each 30x30" (also available in 20x20")
Poolscape #58, 2010, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape #57, 2010, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape #70, 2010, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape #71, 2010, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape #59, 2010, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape #62, 2010, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Poolscape #60, 2010, 48x48" c-print (also available in 30x30")
Inferno explores the friction between the real and the imaginary and the tension between the desired and unreachable. The video is usually presented as an art installation and has been featured at Art Basel Miami 2010 and in 2011 at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Peter Marino Architect Gallery and the Big Screen in New York.
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, 2013
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, 2013
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, 2013
Peter Marino Architect, New York, 2011
Peter Marino Architect, New York, 2011