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 |
2002 | Master’s Degree in Photography & Multimedia, University Paris VIII |
Solo Exhibitions
2022 |
Galerie Marguo, ‘We are miserable, but love, suddenly, saves us’, Paris, France Château Malromé, ‘The Moment of a lifetime’, Saint-André-du-Bois, France |
2021 |
Jardin Beltrame & Galerie Marguo, ‘Antinoüs, Antinoüs’ Paris, France 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 | |
Galerie Odile Ouizeman, ‘Le Procès du Singe’, Paris, France | |
2011 | Palais de Tokyo, ‘Rush to perdition’, Paris, France |
National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad, Russia | |
Krasnoïé Znamia, ‘Lux’, St Petersbourg, 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
2022 | Musée Mandet, ‘Le Grand Tour’, Riom, France |
Fondation La Ruche-Seydoux, ‘Laniakea’, Paris, France | |
Musée-Château, ‘Le Temps Suspendu’, Annecy, France | |
Private Choice’, Paris, France | |
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 | |
Espace 16K, ‘L’echo du silence’, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, 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 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
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Laurent PernotI AM LOOKING FOR A PLACE WHERE NOBODY EVER DIES, 2020Acrylic paint and gold leaf on canvas
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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 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 Pernot82 Jours à l’Armurier, 2018Literary creation by Arthur Dreyfus
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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 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.
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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 PernotROSE, 2012Video projection on a natural white rose, 17mn, in loopEdition 2/3 (+2AE)
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Laurent PernotIs there no longer any miraculous in this world, 2011Light and sound installation
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Laurent PernotTHE WINDOW, 20102 white cotton veils, 70x250cm each
8mn loop, stereo soundEdition 3/3 (+2AE) -
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
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Laurent Pernot: We are miserable, but love suddenly, saves us
Paris Exhibition Artist Film 10 Sep 2022Galerie Marguo is pleased to present We are miserable, but love, suddenly, saves us , an exhibition of new multimedia paintings and text-based sculptures by Laurent Pernot , on view at its Paris space from 10 September to 8 October 2022. Pernot’s work echoes the Romantic impulse to synthesize the ordinary and sublime through lyricism and metaphor. For nearly two decades, he has been developing a distinctive formal language, nourished by literature, poetry, and mythology that probes questions of eternity, ephemerality, and memorialization across a wide array of media. Particularly...Read more -
Laurent Pernot: We are miserable, but love suddenly, saves us
Paris Exhibition Artist Film Teaser 9 Sep 2022 -
Laurent Pernot: Antinoüs, Antinoüs
Paris Exhibition Full Film 17 Oct 2021Galerie Marguo is delighted to present Antinoüs, Antinoüs, a new public installation by Laurent Pernot commissioned for the courtyard of the Jardin Arnaud Beltrame. Working across sculpture, video, and text, Pernot’s practice is engaged in the material and poetic articulation of notions associated with the passage of time, such as eternity, impermanence, and memorialization. For this new series, comprising eight works spread across the courtyard and the gallery, Pernot has taken the Classical love affair between the 2nd century Roman emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous to explore the...Read more
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Saint Laurent Rive Droite Showcases Artist Laurent Pernot’s Pastel-Hued Artworks
Joseph Low, Luxuo, 6 Jan 2023 -
LAURENT PERNOT X SAINT LAURENT RIVE DROITE
Crash Redaction , Crash Magazine, 10 Dec 2022 -
Laurent Pernot : Le Temps De La Grâce
Arthur Dreyfus, Artpassions, 1 Dec 2022 -
The New York Times Style Magazine | Paris, Europe’s Former Art Capital, Is Back on Top
Noor Brara, The New York Times Style Magazine, 5 May 2022 -
An interview with Laurent Pernot
Elene Pritchat, AQNB, 5 Aug 2013