Galerie Perrotin, Paris presents a first solo show by Laurent Grasso, featuring a device of forty works made specially for the occasion.

With “Soleil Double,” Grasso develops one of the founding concepts of his work: the real is twofold. To see the truth, we must look for its mysterious side. Drawing on his personal reading of Michel Foucault, Grasso transforms objects into subjects in an almost cinematic scenario. Each work functions as a block of reality identified in the collective unconscious and is made strange by subtle alterations. The confrontation of this common reality with deliberately staged anachronisms creates a zone of instability were the mind can wander in time. The encounter with these manipulated objects thus give rise to a feeling of general uncertainty, something almost magical.

In this new exhibition, bringing together different periods, places and familiar registers, Laurent Grasso explores two fundamentals of our human condition: our relation to time and power, especially the power of images.

-Galerie Perrotin

Image: © Laurent Grasso
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Perrotin