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Laurent PERNOT

Laurent Pernot creates a polymorphous body of work in a variety of media: video, installation, photography, light and sculpture. His research is imbued with history, philosophy and poetry, and the interactions between man and nature are among his major themes.

His visual language is rooted in memory, images and words, which he explores through the experience of the flow of time, impermanence, the visible and the disappearing.

For the 2025 edition, Private Choice highlights its series of Still Lifes. Various everyday objects seem to have remained frozen in a distant era: in contact with them, one wonders if an ice age has not plunged them into an eternal sleep.

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Biography

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

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

  • 2004 / Le Fresnoy studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing
  • 2002 / Master of Photography & Multimedia, Université Paris VIII

SOLO EXHIBITIONS – SELECTION

  • 2025 / Down to earth, Marguo Gallery, Paris
  • 2023 / Je me souviens, Parc National de Saint-Cloud, France
  • 2022 / Laurent Pernot, Saint Laurent Rive Droite, Paris & Los Angeles
  • 2022 / We are miserable, but love, suddenly, saves us, Galerie Marguo, Paris
  • 2022 / The moment of a lifetime, Malromé chateau, Saint-André-du-Bois
  • 2020-2021 / I'm looking for a place where no one ever dies, Pavillon Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence
  • 2019 / Titans, espace 36, Saint-Omer
  • 2017 / On Earth, Le point Commun, Annecy
  • 2017 / The Land Where Trees Dream, Le Voyage à Nantes, place Royale, Nantes
  • 2017 / No rose for infinity, passage Sainte Croix, Nantes
  • 2015 / A fraction of infinity, MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
  • 2014 / Under the spotlights, espace 13/16, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • 2013 / Year of Light, La Filature, Mulhouse
  • 2013 / Laurent Pernot, Palais Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, Fès, Morocco
  • 2012 / Where ghosts are born, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble
  • 2012 / Intermittent memory, Musée Mandet, Riom
  • 2012 / Phenomena, Palais Jacques Coeur, Bourges
  • 2011 / Rush to Perdition, Module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
  • 2011 / NCCA National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad, Russia
  • 2011 / Lux, Krasnoïé Znamia, St Petersburg, Russia
  • 2010 / Survivance des lucioles, Lux, national stage, Valence
  • 2010 / Matière noire, Attrape-couleurs, Lyon
  • 2009 / Incertitude des étoiles, Palacio das artes, Siana festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2008 / D’ici là, Espace culturel François Mitterrand, Beauvais
  • 2007 / Beyond miracles, 1aspace, Hong Kong, China
  • 2006 / Particles, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
  • 2005 / Once upon a time, Fondation Miro, Espai 13, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2004 / Don’t close your eyes, Interxcross Creative Center, Sapporo, Japan

COMMISSIONS – AWARDS – GRANTS – RESIDENCIES

  • 2024 / Public commission, Les murmures du temps program, Pays de l’Arbreles, permanent monumental sculpture inaugurated in spring 2024
  • 2023 / Art direction and scenographer, temporary exhibition, Louvre Lens
  • 2022 / Ekphrasis Grant, artist/critic duo Laurent Pernot/Aurélie Barnier, ADAGP, Paris
    2022 / Public commission, MONDES NOUVEAUX program, winning project
  • 2018 / Public commission, permanent installation, in collaboration with Arthur Dreyfus, parc de l’Armurier, Colomiers, France
  • 2015 / Art commission, Maison Hennessy, Hennessy 250th Anniversary Tour
  • 2015 / Residency, La Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
  • 2014 / In-Situ Residency, Conseil Général Seine-St-Denis, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • 2013 / Residency, Thaillywood, Thailand
  • 2013 / Yishu 8 Prize, residency, Beijing, China
  • 2012 / Residency, Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand
  • 2011 / Residency, JA.CA, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • 2010 / Winner of the SAM Prize for contemporary art, SAM Art Projects
  • 2009 / Installation grant, DRAC Ile De France
  • 2007 / Residency, city of Beauvais, Drac Picardie
  • 2007 / Residency, Cité internationale des arts, Paris
  • 2007 / UNESCO-Aschberg Scholarship, Changdong National Art Studio, Seoul, Korea
  • 2006 / Residency, European pepinières for young artists, Montreal, Canada
  • 2006 / Residency, NKD The Nordic Artists’ Centre, Dale, Norway
  • 2005 / Residency, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany
  • 2005 / Residency, Fabrica, Benetton Research and Creation Center, Treviso, Italy
  • 2004 / Residency, S-AIR, Interxcross Creative Center, Sapporo, Japan
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