1. I have known Laura for about three years. We met in a dance class in London. We became friends, colleagues, collaborators, and lovers. I was impressed with Laura’s earlier work. I have always been touched by her commitment and intellect as well as by her wonderful sense of humor and by her ability to be compassionate. We have collaborated and
supported each other’s work in the strangest ways and often we see the world through the same eyes, interpret the world around us very similarly.
2. For me peripheral means working through and from distance,
sometimes travelling from intellect, concept, and head to intuition,
sensation, feeling, and guts. Laura creates her work in both ways, starting from concept, observation, displacement, and deconstruction, moving into
intuitive personal moments, thus from the periphery into the center.
In her interventions, through her interventional eye, the center mediates
and recreates the periphery. Both need to coexist in symbiosis with
each other.
3. Art has too many integrative functions to be barred from a center.
A chosen peripheral placement of art is important to allow space for
undisturbed experiment. During the 20th century the most relevant,
critical and innovative art has grown from the periphery towards a center of society. The roads between center and periphery are busy in both
directions.
— Thomas Kampe


Selected solo exhibitions: 2002: Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte;
Paço das Artes, São Paulo; 2001: Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte.
Selected group exhibitions: 2000/2001: Programa Rumos Visuais, IIC, São Paulo/ Recife/ Fortaleza, Brazil; 1999: Celma Albuquerque, Galeria de Arte, Belo Horizonte;10 anos do Centro Cultural UFMG, UFMG, Belo Horizonte.