Galerie Nicolas Robert is pleased to present Regurgitalites, an exhibition of the most recent series of paintings by Laur P. Working with layered, dry-brushed paint that continually buries and resurfaces its own history, the artist treats the painted surface as both a sedimentary and a digestive plane — a body that absorbs, transforms, and expels its material and psychic traces.

For this exhibition, the artist enlisted nineteen trans participants (including himself, close friends and his romantic partner), to press different areas of their bodies into the gessoed surface of the paintings to begin, typically three to four participants per work. The wet gesso puckers, patterns and records the contours of these impressions, and the resulting marks become the starting point the artist works throughout the composition. In the finished paintings, these traces are rarely recognizable as bodies; instead they surface as organic, biomorphic forms, each are layered and superimposed until…