List of products by brand Laurence Garnesson
Laurence Garnesson was born in 1967 and grew up in Hauts-de-France. She lives and works in Paris.
She has a double degree in Plastic and Applied Arts. After training at the Duperré school and the ENS (Art and Design department), she worked at the Centre de Recherche en Arts Plastiques (CERAP) at Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne.
At the same time, Henri Cueco welcomed her into his studio at the Beaux-arts de Paris, where he gave her the interest in drawing and a sharp eye. From then on, the artist never ceased to bring together the richness of her training in multiple projects and collaborations.
After numerous solo and group exhibitions, in 2014 the Institut Français de Tokyo invited her to take part in ÂMES EN RÉSONANCE, a dialogue between French and Japanese artists. In 2015, the European Commission in Brussels dedicated her a solo show, LE TRAIT À L'OEUVRE . Since then, her work has been exhibited at international fairs (South Korea, Germany, and Sweden). Laureate of the Charles Oulmont Foundation in 2015, an award presented by Maria Lund, her works are part of numerous collections including Crédit Agricole Hauts de France, the Gautier collection, the Tiffon collection and the Bi Sun Jae collection (South Korea).
Since 2017, she has been working on prints in residence at Editions Bucciali. In 2019, Laurence Garnesson explored the artistic porosities between instant musical writing and contemporary dance in performances with the multipoint.s collective at 109 - L'entre-pont in Nice.
Since that same year, she has been reflecting on the issues involved in her research with Elora Weill-Engerer (critic, member of AICA, curator and art historian), who wrote a critical text for her in 2020, Point sensible, published on BoumBang!
Laurence Garnesson has been exploring the correlations between drawing and volume through research in ceramics from les Ateliers Poush Manifesto (Aubervilliers, France) which she joined in 2022. She is preparing a series of works to be presented at Aponia, Lieu d'Art Contemporain (France) in June 2023.
Laurence Garnesson co-founds the Cinéma d'animation department at the École Estienne in Paris. She has run numerous workshops with L'Odéon-Théâtre de L'Europe and RMN-Grand Palais. In 2019, she co-produced a series of video-poems, short, animated films with La Factorie, Maison de poésie de Normandie. She is currently working with the Lilian Thuram Foundation on an animated documentary film project on the theme of everyday discrimination (Les petites phrases qui blessent), a theme particularly close to her heart.
EDUCATION
Ecole Nationale Supérieure, Art et Design
Université Paris I - Sorbonne, Arts Plastiques et Arts Appliqués
EXHIBITIONS
2022
Estivales, Festival d'art contemporain du grand Paris, Sceaux, Curation Christophe Delavault
Northeast coast tour, estampes avec Artvista, ParisAAF Bruxelles, Belgique, Editions
BuccialiPré-méditation du geste, avec Olivier Marty et Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Jacques
LEVY, Paris Parution dessins revue REHAUTS, Paris
2021
Collective avec Laurent Selmès, Galerie Olivier Nouvellet
A bien y regarder..., solo show Galerie Olivier Nouvellet, Paris.
2019
Résidence au 109-L’entrepont, Nice performing drawing
Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, Editions Bucciali
La stratégie de l'infime, dessins, Galerie Jacques LEVY, Paris
AAF Hamburg, Allemagne/ AAF Stockholm, Suède/ Art KARLSRUHE, Allemagne, Editions Bucciali
2018
Parcours de l'art, Festival d’art contemporain, Avignon Le sujet en question, Galerie Jacques LEVY, Paris
AAF Bruxelles, Belgique, Editions Bucciali
2017
La pulsation du trait, solo show, Galerie Jacques LEVY, Paris
2016
Dessins, accrochage collectif, Galerie Jacques LEVY, Paris
Art Gwanju et Art Jeju, Corée du Sud, Galerie Jacques Lévy
2015
Le trait de l'oeuvre, solo show, Commission européenne, Bruxelles Oeuvres récentes, solo show, Galerie Jacques LEVY, Paris
2014
Âmes en raisonnance, Takamatsu, Japon, avec le partenariat de l’Institut Français de Tokyo et l’Ambassade de France au Japon
2012
Salon du Dessin, Bruxelles, Galerie Pascaline MULLIEZ, Paris
RESIDENCY/ PRODUCTION OF WORKS ON SITE
2022, 2020, 2018 et 2017
Editions Bucciali, Colmar / estampes et monotypes
2019
Résidence de création au 109 - L’entrepont, Nice / performances
AWARD
2015
Prix d’Arts plastiques FONDATION CHARLES OULMONT (2015)
COLLECTIONS
Collection Crédit Agricole Haut de France,
Collection Gautier,
Collection Tiffon
Collection Bi Sun Jae (Corée du Sud)
Every person who is in motion traces a line.
Everyone who moves about weaves lines.
Laurence Garnesson pushes drawing to the limits of its traditional form. A multidisciplinary artist, she explores what drawing is beyond drawing itself. She develops a subtle and reflective body of work that pays particular attention to its context.
Her works bring into tension two strong axes: first, that of an ecology of the line. How it circulates, slides, evolves, and adapts to its environment. In her research, she creates conditions for physical and emotional variation. She sets up working protocols that highlight the responsiveness of the line, and empirically questions our own responsiveness to events.
At the same time, she examines the mnemonic dimension of this line. For Laurence Garnesson, drawing is everywhere. It exists in all objects, situations, and spaces. It weaves a network of minute traces—evidence of our passage. She observes volumes differently, through their graphic structure. Their lines imply a temporality, a lived experience. They become the mnemonic support that the artist captures with sensitivity. Observation is the starting point for a conceptual form of writing, a play of construction and balance.
Object and gesture are the root materials of her work. Fragility and precision are its driving forces.
Through her polymorphous installations, she explores drawing in both its constraints and its freedom, like a visual oxymoron. She works with paper on both sides, transparency, and the fragile balance of volumes. She creates a dialogue between the imprint of modest objects and photography or drawing in motion.
As Elora Weill-Engerer writes, “Her works, marked by refinement and delicacy, stem from a minimalist reflection on the ‘almost’ and the ‘very little’ as aesthetic principles.”
Her approach is oriented toward a new anthropology. When Tim Ingold speaks of wayfaring across a territory, Laurence Garnesson engages with it at the scale of the medium, the tool, and the body.
