FLORENCE LAPRAT
It Looks Like You Like What You Do

04.09 – 03.10.2025
Gallery 41 — Rue Ernest Allard 41, 1000 Brussels

It Looks Like You Like What You Do explores fleeting emotions and silent narratives that flow through everyday life. Inspired by scenes observed on the street, in cafés, or on the metro, Florence Laprat seeks less to depict an image than to translate a vibration — an inner movement.

Rooted in memory, each painting captures moments that are at once chaotic and tender, intense and fragile, shaped by gesture and the rhythm of color. The figures, often mute and distant, appear as fragments of suspended stories, anchored to the ground yet permeated by the passage of time.

The creative process — layering, erasing, rewriting — reflects the instability and impermanence of life itself. Color provides emotional intonation, while forms whisper implicit, open-ended narratives.

The series also questions the relationship between gaze and gesture, viewer and painting, memory and present. Within this space of uncertainty and fragility, Florence Laprat seeks to capture the poetry of the instant, embracing the unknown as an essential part of creation.

About the artist

Florence Laprat (b. 1992) is a French artist whose work explores the dynamic relationships between the body, painting, and the outside world. Her figures are not intended as direct representations but as expressions of the spectrum of connections between herself and her environment, with bodies serving as oracles of the inner state. Laprat rejects the antagonism between abstraction and figuration, treating painting as a character in a dialogue with the world. Her approach integrates various media as extensions of her own body, each becoming a motion or movement within her practice. Laprat has exhibited internationally, with recent shows in Brussels, London, and New York, including solo and group exhibitions at venues such as Ada Ventura, the Moonens Foundation, and Tate Modern.