Laura Lamiel - Ca fait un bruit d'ailes, de feuilles, de sable

A leporello published to mark Laura Lamiel’s exhibition “ça fait un bruit d’ailes, de feuilles, de sable”, on display at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris (until 31 August 2026).

Alongside the group exhibition “Clair-obscur”, Laura Lamiel takes over the 24 display windows of the Passage de la Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, curated by Alexandra Bordes. The title “ça fait un bruit d’ailes, de feuilles, de sable”, borrowed from Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, sets the sensory and poetic tone of this installation.

Lamiel takes over the former display windows of the Halle au Blé, continuing her work on “cells” begun in the 1990s. These open structures, akin to both a studio and a shelter, made of white walls, glass and reflective surfaces, engage in a subtle dialogue with the museum-like aesthetic of the display windows. Whilst the latter isolates and sanctifies the object by keeping it at a distance, the ‘cells’ introduce an intimate, almost physical relationship. They become spaces of interiority where personal objects, found fragments and worn materials accumulate, laden with a silent memory. From one cell to the next, motifs and materials recur: children’s shoes, gloves, compressed fabrics, cotton coats, glazed bricks, slate dust, or even a phrase typed onto a piece of cloth: ‘nothing is to be done, everything is to be undone’.

Light, ever-present, plays a decisive role: the fluorescent tubes both reveal and conceal, structuring the space and creating a tension between the visible and the invisible, between surface and depth.