CONTACT
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ABOUT
Laura Canal (Barcelona, 1993) is an abstract painter whose practice lies at the intersection of the body, matter, and time. Largely self-taught, she has studied figurative drawing at the Barcelona Academy of Art and painting in the studio of artist Marta Duran. She currently lives and works in Mataró, Barcelona.
With a background in Product Design, project management, and yoga teaching, her path has been shaped by her involvement in social, technological, and environmental projects — experiences that have earned her recognition through various awards for their creativity and impact. These experiences have profoundly influenced her perspective on and perception of the world, and they resonate throughout her artistic language.
"The skin of my artworks is a dialogue between environmental matter and time — the past, the present, and a future in emergence." Canal works with sand, soil, natural pigments, ash, and eroded sediments as vessels of memory, traces of landscape and human presence.
Her practice begins with the body: hands, feet, and physical imprints become part of the work, creating tactile surfaces that invite sensory and contemplative engagement. Encounters with territories such as Stromboli or Patagonia, where ice and lava, explosion and void coexist, have exposed her to primal forces that also echo within her internal landscape. These experiences, together with Mediterranean elements — her roots — are embedded in each piece as fragments of memory and as a way of navigating a dual world.
For Canal, art is both a search and a form of reflection, where material and emotion intertwine in a continual process of transformation. In this exchange, the artwork does not impose itself; it is built, deconstructed, and finally emerges, revealing hidden aspects of the self.
ExHIBITIoNS
2025
Group exhibition, Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece
Group exhibition, Cercle Artístic Sant Lluc, Barcelona, Spain
2023
Art Fair, Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Group exhibition, Parcus Gallery, Aistersheim, Austria
Group exhibition, W Soul, Munich, Germany