Laura Chen 

Laura Chen is a Dutch photographer, collage artist, writer and musician. Her practice is highly intuitive, experimental and playful. Within her work, research, implementation and intervention are closely intertwined. She often employs a mixed-media approach, combining image, text and analogue photomontage techniques. She is drawn to the obscurities and idiosyncrasies of mundane life, notions of impermanence, and a connection with the subconscious. Be it objects, places or people situated on the fringes of society — her images are tranquil observations of traces and rituals that often go unnoticed, are ignored or forgotten. Other recurring interests include: memory, dreams, surrealism, (science) fiction, hauntology,  linguistics, genealogy, mythology, synchronicity and serendipity.