Laurent GOUMARRE

Born in 1963 in the Cantal region of France, Laurent Goumarre is an eclectic character: journalist, producer, artist and art critic, known for the passion with which he presented his music program on France Inter every evening. He stopped hosting the show when he became Director of Programs at France Inter in June 2025. At the same time, he developed his work as a photographer and ceramist, and exhibited at the Alain Gutharc gallery in Paris.

Since 2024, Laurent Goumarre has been assembling assembling postcardsa practice he repeats every morning as a mental exercise. He takes advantage of the intermediate stage between consciousness and unconsciousness in which he finds himself when he wakes up, to put them together. In this way, he works in the manner of André Masson and his Surrealist contemporaries when they produced their automatic drawings.

Laurent Goumarre creates his series by trying to create a dialogue between several postcards. He has an immense corpus of postcards at his disposal, which he hunts down or finds at flea markets. His assemblages are born of a gesture of superimpositionwithout any cutting or construction, unlike collages. Two postcards (never more) are matched to recreate a new landscape or universe, or to create a game of anamorphosis. He attaches little importance to the theme of the cards he selects, relying instead on formal complementarities.