Born in Melun in 1985, Pia-Mélissa Laroche lives in Paris. Trained as a graphic designer, she worked as an art director until 2018. She now devotes most of her time to the visual arts. Combining drawing, self-publishing and ceramics, her work focuses on the narrative image and its subjectivity: Pia-Mélissa Laroche transcribes her observations of the material world into unexpected narratives teeming with a thousand possibilities for free association, a thousand wanderings, a thousand escapes. Also an illustrator, Pia-Mélissa Laroche works regularly for the press (Mon lapin quotidien, The New York Times, Télérama, Médor, Ventoline…), the music industry (Sonic Protest festival, labels Un je-ne-sais-quoi and Lost Dogs Entertainment…) and institutions.