Laure Cottin Stefanelli

Laure Cottin Stefanelli is a french visual artist and filmmaker. Through her films, photographs and installations, she pursues a research around stories focused on characters inhabited by paradoxical tensions – life, death and erotic impulses – those resulting from the separation between mind and body.

Her work had been exhibited and screened at venues including WIELS – Contemporary art center (Brussels, BE) ; FOMU – Fotomuseum (Antwerp, BE) ; États Généraux du Film Documentaire (Lussas, FR) ;  KANAL – Centre Pompidou (Brussels, BE) ; Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival (BR) ; Kasseler Dok Festival (Kassel, DE) ; Moscow Biennal (RU) ; Art Brussels (BE) ; FIDMarseille (FR) among others. Her first medium-length film « No blood in my body » received the short film prize at Écrans Documentaires d’Arceuil (FR). She has completed several residencies including the Hoger Instituut Voor Schone Kunsten, HISK (BE). 

Laure Cottin Stefanelli studied literature and cinema at the University of Paris III and graduated in Photo-Video from École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris.