Laurent Pernot France, b. 1980
I often work on the basis of philosophical and historical research rooted in existential concerns and personal feelings, which I will then try to translate into a contemplative and poetic experience. Because poetry has no homeland, no language, no borders. Because there is no human without the ability to feel poetry.
— Laurent Pernot
Graduated from Le Fresnoy national studio of contemporary arts, Laurent Pernot has developed a polymorphous practice that explores human nature through the experience of time and memory. Contemplative and universal, discreet or sometimes spectacular, his artworks allude to a sense of timelessness through intricacies between the past, the contemporary and the future. His research draws as much from history and philosophy as from references to literature and poetry. The interactions between man and nature, memory and oblivion, the ephemeral and the eternal, or more recently human history and love, are among his major themes.
His work has notably been exhibited at the Miro Foundation in Barcelona, the Sketch Gallery in London, the Long Museum in Shanghai, the MMOMA in Moscow, the São Paulo Biennial, and in France at the Louis Vuitton Cultural space, the Palais de Tokyo, the Maison Rouge, the Georges Pompidou Center, the Delacroix museum, the MAC VAL, the Pommery domain, and the Voyage à Nantes, among others. Laurent Pernot has been commissioned for several public works and received the prestigious SAM Prize for Contemporary Art in 2010. He is represented in museums, foundations and private collections around the world.
Born in 1980, France
Lives and works in Paris, France
Education
2004 | Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Arts, Tourcoing |
Solo Exhibitions
2021 | RX Gallery, 4+4 project, ‘Compared with one moment of love’, Paris, France |
2020 |
Pavillon Vendôme, ‘I am looking for a place where nobody ever dies’, Aix-en-Provence, France |
2019 | Espace 36, ‘Titans’, Saint-Omer, France |
2017 |
Le Point Commun, ‘On Earth’, Annecy, France |
Place Royale, Le Voyage à Nantes, ‘The land where the trees dream’, Nantes, France | |
Passage Sainte Croix, ‘No rose for the infinite’, Nantes, France | |
2016 | Odile Ouizeman Gallery, ‘The Hope that still remains’, Paris, France |
2015 | MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art, ‘A Fraction of infinity’, Moscow, Russia |
2014 | Centre Pompidou, space 13/16, ‘In the spotlights’, Paris, France |
2013 | La Filature, ‘Light Year’, Mulhouse, France |
Palace Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, Fez, Morocco | |
2012 | Centre d’Art Bastille, ‘Where the ghosts are born’, Grenoble, France |
Mandet Museum, ‘Intermittent memory’, Riom, France | |
Palais Jacques Coeur, ‘Phenomena’, Bourges, France | |
2011 | Palais de Tokyo, ‘Rush to perdition’, Paris, France |
National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad, Russia | |
2010 | Lux Scène Nationale, ‘The survival of fireflies’, Valence, France |
Attrape-couleurs, ‘Dark matter’, Lyon, France | |
2009 | Palacio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
2008 | Odile Ouizeman Gallery, ‘The sky’s turned black’, Paris, France |
2007 | Sketch Gallery, London, England |
1aspace, ‘Beyond miracles’, Hong Kong, China | |
2006 | Alvar Aalto Museum, ‘Particles’, Jyväskylä, Finland |
2005 | Miro Foundation, Espai 13, ‘Once upon a time’, Barcelona, Spain |
2004 | Interxcross Creative Center, ‘Don’t close your eyes’, Sapporo, Japan |
Group Exhibitions
2021 | MAC VAL, ‘Le vent se lève’, Vitry-sur-Seine, France |
Anglet Biennale, Anglet, France |
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‘Summer pieces’, Malbuisson, France | |
Domaine Pommery, ‘Blooming’, Reims, France |
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Château du Rivau, ‘The Taste of art – Part II’, Lémeré, France | |
‘Private Choice’, Paris, France | |
2020 | MAC VAL, ‘Le vent se lève’, Vitry-sur-Seine, France |
Maison des Arts, ‘Metamorphoses’, Chevilly-Larue, France | |
Le Point Commun, ‘10 years!’, Annecy, France | |
‘French Cliché’, world tour 2020, Paris, Miami, New York, Dallas, Aspen, etc. | |
Château du Rivau, ‘The Taste of art’, Lémeré, France |
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Laurent PernotTHE UNCERTAINTY OF STARS, 2007Video projection on a screen of silk threads8 minutes in loop, silent
Projecting screen 250 x 250 cmEdition of 5 + 2 AP -
Laurent PernotTHE WINDOW, 20102 white cotton veils, 70x250cm each
8mn loop, stereo soundEdition 3/3 (+2AE) -
Laurent PernotIs there no longer any miraculous in this world, 2011Light and sound installation
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Laurent PernotROSE, 2012Video projection on a natural white rose, 17mn, in loopEdition 2/3 (+2AE)
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Laurent PernotThe brain is wider than the sky, 2013Stones from the Rhine river, silver paint, printed transparent sails of different sizes, metal structures and tubes, various suspension materials, PMMA luminous sphere on the ground
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Laurent PernotSelf portrait with a winter painting, 2015Self portrait sculpture : resin, clothes, foam, acrylic paint, varnish, metal, artificial snow and frost, various materials.
Painting : found painting, artificial snow, resin, acrylic, paint, varnish.Self portrait sculpture : 175x45x55cm.
Painting : 79x76x7cm. -
Laurent PernotAtlas, 2017Dried clay, fiberglass, map of the political world, resin, varnishapproximately 300x200cm
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Laurent PernotThe Land where the trees dream, 2017Monumental installation, place Royale, Nantes
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Laurent Pernot82 Jours à l’Armurier, 2018Literary creation by Arthur Dreyfus
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Laurent PernotMEMORIA, 2019Reconstituted stone, steelInstallation 340x300x45cm, each letter approx. 30x45x25cmEdition 2/3 (+2AE)
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Laurent PernotTITANS, 2019Series of photographs, neon
inkjet prints on paperPhotographs of various sizes, neon 50x15cmEdition 1/3 (+2AE) -
Laurent PernotI AM LOOKING FOR A PLACE WHERE NOBODY EVER DIES, 2020Acrylic paint and gold leaf on canvas
162 x 130 cm -
Laurent PernotSONGS OF SILENCE, 202033 rpm vinyl record, bird ash included in a transparent resin record, vinyl player and white frame; silent recorded tape punctuated by sounds produced by ashes during playbackEdition of 5 (+2AE)
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Laurent PernotTHE KISS, 2020Plaster, brass chain, nail40 x 10 x 8 cmEdition of 300
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Laurent PernotBlooming Pommery, 2021
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Laurent PernotRe-live, 2021Wood, resin and reconstituted stone, paint, gold leaf, varnish
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Laurent PernotRecall from the ocean, 2021Monumental installation