Laurent Pernot — À propos — Slash Paris

Laurent Pernot was born in 1980, and lives and works in Paris.

Graduated from the University of Paris VIII and Le Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Arts, Laurent Pernot has been developping a polymorphous work for a decade through various media : video, installation, photography, light, sculpture.

His poetic visual language is focused on memory, images and words, which he explores through the experience of the flow of time, the impermanence, the visible or the disappearance. His work often induces a contemplation, playing with perception, through a sense of time and melancholy inhabited by both the past and the present, the alterability of things and beings, the fragility and the loss.

Laurent Pernot regularly investigates history, philosophy, poetry, sometimes with research based on specific places or on the memory of major historical figures. The interactions between man and nature are also among his major themes.

“An angel, Laurent Pernot is an angel. He stands gazing at the visible and invisible, reaches out and touches the stars, marveling at what is evanescent, unstable and ungraspable, at the volatile — and of course, fragile — figures that pass, shine, then in the blink of an eye, fade back into limbo to renew themselves. To do this, Laurent Pernot uses video, installation and photography which is sometimes projected, yet always favors movement and the impermanence of things”.

Michel Nuridsany