Contemporary artist and visual storyteller Laurence de Valmy is back on my podcast to share her new body of works; her exploration of the social media platform Tik Tok and her investigation of hashtags.
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Engage and learn more about Laurence’s work and practice at her website.
Follow Laurence on IG @laurencedevalmy–To experience Laurence’s Tik Tok videos/NFTS, got to the website Voice.
Cover Feature Image: #hashtagsareart: Laurence de Valmy
Laurence was my guest in a previous episode, #89
From Laurence’s #Hashtagsart series
Script: Does Not Include a transcript of the conversation with the artist
Laurence de Valmy: The story of Art, Tik Tok and the NFT
The contemporary female artist Laurence de Valmy is a visual storyteller whose works and practice engages the viewer to the story of art through today’s social media platforms, primarily Instagram and Tiktok. Employing the profile template of an Instagram post, she “combines iconic artworks skillfully appropriated with imagined conversations” she incorporates a profile photo of the artist, comments by artists of the time, emojis and hashtags that are—“Historically accurate yet humorous,” We the viewer can explore artists, artworks, historical perspective through digital and social media vehicles available to contemporary artists today. Laurence creates a new “text” to see and experience the story of art—she levels the playing field of access to artists throughout history.
Laurence and I met through Instagram in 2020—Female artists have shared with me that social media media platforms like IG, especially during the pandemic has helped tremendously to show their work and build relationships with other women artists, collectors. Laurence reached out to me in early 2020, just as the world began to shut down, because of our shared passion for women artists. We connected immediately. She has been on my show—Episode 89—Laurence is a very generous women and soul. She is very supportive of other women and their work. And I am pleased to have her on my show again today to explore her series and creative initiative Tik Tok Timeless: Art Stories through Videos. From Laurence’s website, “In this body of work, she uses the social media platform Tik Tok as a medium. She creates videos, published on Tik Tok in the name of famous artists such as Jean Michel Basquiat, Frida Kahlo or Georgia O’Keeffe to name a few. These ‘videos of the past’ are available as NFTs, the technology of the future. Each video relates a moment in the life of the artists with extracts of music that they could have used in their time.” The Tik Tok Timeless videos Laurence creates are visual and audio immersive anchored in art history.