Exhibition "Laurent DELAIRE, Ces blancs que je creuse"
In drawings that often depict intimate interiors, the artist strays from the usual codes of perspective by taking parts of the image or fragmenting them.
On his monochrome paintings, some of which cite the Dutch Golden Age, he proceeded by erasing the medium in order to gradually unveil the initial drawing as well as the white background of the medium that pictorially translated the light. An epiphany (a manifesto) emerges where images often marked with a meditative or spiritual dimension emerge.
All these figurations invite us to a still journey that we can symbolically link to the inner exploration. In the immersive installation "They all became shadows", fingerprints by rubbing stage the Absence within a domestic and familiar interior. It is a meditation on the impermanence of our condition.
Finally, the artist devotes two rooms to his asemic writings which present a cursive, regular, mastered and indecipherable. Ascetic, this experience requires a presence in gesture on the part of the artist-scribe. It intimately links the plastic process and the life of which it expresses the flow.