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Laurent Pernot

Laurent Pernot fashions 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 2024 edition, Private Choice is highlighting its series of Still lifes. A variety of everyday objects seem to have remained frozen in a distant past, and we wonder whether they might have been plunged into eternal slumber by an ice age.

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Biography

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

TRAINING

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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS - SELECTION

  • 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, Château Malromé, 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 / La Terre où les arbres rêvent, Le Voyage à Nantes, place Royale, Nantes
  • 2017 / Pas de rose pour l'infini, Passage Sainte Croix, Nantes
  • 2015 / A fraction of infinity, MMOMA Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
  • 2014 / Sous les projecteurs, espace 13/16, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • 2013 / Year of Light, La Filature, Mulhouse
  • 2013 / Laurent Pernot, Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef Palace, Fez, Morocco
  • 2012 / Where ghosts are born, Centre d'Art Bastille, Grenoble
  • 2012 / Intermittent memory, Musée Mandet, Riom
  • 2012 / Phenomena, Palais Jacques Coeur, Bourges
  • 2011 / Ruée vers la perdition, Module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
  • 2011 / NCCA National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad, Russia
  • 2011 / Lux, Krasnoye Znamia, St Petersburg, Russia
  • 2010 / Survivance des lucioles, Lux scène nationale, Valence
  • 2010 / Matière noire, Attrape-couleurs, Lyon
  • 2009 / Uncertainty of the stars, 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, Miro Foundation, Espai 13, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2004 / Don't close your eyes, Interxcross Creative Center, Sapporo, Japan

COMMISSIONS - AWARDS - GRANTS - RESIDENCIES

  • 2023 / Art direction and scenographer, temporary exhibition, Louvre Lens
    Public commission, program Les murmures du temps, pays de l'Arbreles, monumental sculpture inaugurated in spring 2024
  • 2022 / Ekphrasis Grant, duo artist/critic Laurent Pernot/Aurélie Barnier, ADAGP, Paris
    2022 / Public commission, MONDES NOUVEAUX program, laureate 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 / Residence, 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 allowance, DRAC Ile De France
  • 2007 / Residency, City of Beauvais, Drac Picardie
  • 2007 / Residency, Cité internationale des arts, Paris
  • 2007 / UNESCO-Aschberg Grant, Changdong National Art Studio, Seoul, Korea
  • 2006 / Residency, Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, 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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