Born in Paris in 1997, Laura Tolen is a French and Cameroonian artist who grew up in Douala (Cameroon) before joining the Beaux-Arts of Paris School from which she graduated in 2020. Her works were featured in the group show ArtuElles Interférences at the Annie Kadji Art gallery in Douala in 2020 as well as in the charity group show Home Perspectives in Paris. Laura Tolen’s work mainly revolves around how memory is built and passed down, as well as its role in building intergenerational relationships within the family. Working with old family pictures, the artist brings into the same time and space family members from various generations who’ve never actually interacted, recreating through her work a semi-real, semi-fictional family history.