10.02.2025-11.01.2025
Anaëlle CLOT
Symbiosis
Laurent DE PURY
Lines and other trajectories
My primary source of inspiration is my immediate environment: the garden, the forest. The dimension of the nearby, the small, the accessible—it's where I can go on foot. In these places, I wander, I contemplate, I linger over the details of bark, moss, lichens and fungi, roadside flowers, insects. I keep a low profile; I am not alone. I take nothing or almost nothing with me; I carry away memories, sensations, emotions, and images that float, distort, change, and sometimes turn into obsessions. The series La vie du bois mort (The Life of Dead Wood) came to me during one of these wanderings, from which I returned with the fixed idea of drawing a stump teeming with life. - Anaëlle Clot
With thin square segments reminiscent of the basic shape of beams, his sculptures bring together segments that take advantage of the curvature of the branch, its ramifications, and its natural movements, but also invent new ones that are surprising, highly graphic, and poetic, suspending them in a state of grace and lightness. For even though his sculptural language is stripped down, silent, and devoid of pedestals, clearly contemporary, Laurent de Pury feels timeless and far removed from the analytical and critical discourse of certain contemporary art on today's society. He is nonetheless totally committed to the fundamental mission of the artist, which is to “resonate with the world” - Françoise Jaunin, Excerpt: “LDP, the man of the woods who draws in space”