Laia Cabrera & Co.
New York
United States of America
+1 6463310028
we@laiacabrera.com
www.laiacabreraco.com
Année de création : 2010
Laia Cabrera
I am an American - Spanish video artist working in experimental filmmaking, visual poetry and immersive content experience. My projects always challenge the conventional form and are designed from conception to inception to be native to multiple platforms and exhibitions. Identity and consciousness have been a long research of mine aimed to revitalize and strengthen the intercommunication of different artistic languages.
Isabelle Duverger:
I’m a French visual artist. I’m from Paris and I live in New York for over 15 years. My work is very much focused on emotions, and the feelings of a moment, I create spatial environment, and I create situations. I love that my collaborations with Laia can offer our two different paths to create the same piece. Our different minds make up for a richer experience, plural and whole.
About:
LAIA CABRERA & CO. is an award-winning team of film, animation, and visual artists based in New York co-founded Laia Cabrera, filmmaker and video artist and Isabelle Duverger, visual artist and animator. We create multimedia artworks, from traditional and experimental filmmaking to immersive interactive art installations. We’ve been working for the past 15 years on projects that range from video art, animation, video installations, and projection mapping, with an interdisciplinary team of visual and media artists, musicians, cultural scholars and technical specialists from various fields. Together, we develop site-specific media installations for public spaces, including architectural projections, art gallery installations, media façade concepts and virtual theatre. We have evolved to interactivity to allow our audience to feel more immersed in the experience. We also collaborate with Theater and Dance companies developing the scenography and projections.
Our work blurs the boundaries of film and multimedia. Our priority being the narrative and the poetry, our exploration of technology is always at the service of our story and we want to make sure the experience for the audience is as seamless and magical as possible, with the technology indivisible. We are driven by a deep fascination for the enormous potential technology holds for cross-genre artistic expression. By understanding ourselves as artists, researchers and inventors at the same time, we allow our work to blur the lines between those disciplines. Our work tackles the countless questions surrounding the new principles of communication, lifestyle and art emerging in the afterglow of the digital revolution. What concerns us and our work is to establish a language that makes this relationship tangible and to invent stories to be told, stories that find their expression in vivid, contemporary artwork. By experimenting with the syntheses of digital media and material objects and spaces, we discover new forms of artistically conveyed studies of a living environment that keeps changing as we speak.
As filmmakers and visual artists, we use a variety of media—music, video, storytelling, projected imagery merging cinematic arts; dance, music; photography; theater; visual arts; voice; writing; sense of timelessness, human landscape: faces, fragments of the body.
Using new languages to produce creative environments, the audience is invited to actively participate as actors and not just as mere spectators. Our goal is to combine cutting-edge technology with traditional filmmaking and a unique sound implementation to bring a soulful and organic world to life, reaching the point where technology becomes (and fuses with) art. We are exploring new ways of using space and visual imaginary as a tool for storytelling and audience connection, creating immersive experiences that draw on both scenographic and dramaturgical techniques. Our aim is to revitalize and strengthen the intercommunication of different artistic languages.
Our work has been commissioned and presented in Europe, the United States, Asia and Latin America.
Awards - Past Projects:
Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger are Motion Award 2021 Nominees in the category "Interactive/Experiential - Installation", #Hybrid Vision Panasonic Digital Art Competition 2022 Nominees for Interactive Digital Art, 3-time nominees (Projection Design, Video-Art and Animations) at the New York Innovative Theater Awards 2013, 2014 and 2015 for Outstanding Innovative Design and won with New Stage Theatre Company the NYIT Award 2015 for Outstanding Performance Art Production for Night.
Laia Cabrera & Co. is also the recipient of the Silver Telly Awards 2016 (highest distinction) for Outstanding Directing, Bronze Telly Awards 2014 for best Art Direction, the AVA Awards 2013 platinum winner and gold winner, Communicator Award 2013 and the Silver and Bronze Telly Awards 2013 for best animation and best documentary.
Recent immersive interactive art installation includes “Dream-e-scape” (Flutter, Los Angeles, 2021 - Microwave Festival, Hong Kong, 2022) “Illusion” (Flutter, Los Angeles, 2019), “Self on the Shelf” (Spring Break Art Show, New York, 2018), “The Now” (Public Art, Times Square, New York, 2018-2019).
Other venues include Brooklyn Academy of Music, St John The Divine Cathedral, NJPAC, TimeCenter at the New York Times and PBS’s American Master among many others.
Links:
Website: laiacabreraco.com
Instagram: @laiacabreraco
Vimeo: vimeo.com/laiacabreraco
Youtube: youtube.com/laiacabreraco
