Laurent GRASSO

This October, Perrotin presents the first solo exhibition by Laurent Grasso at the gallery’s London space. At the center of the exhibition is the film Orchid Island (2023), shot in remote sites off the coasts of Taiwan. Rendered entirely in black and white, lush tropical landscapes are overshadowed by the apparition of a vast, levitating black rectangle. At once abstract, alien, and supernatural, this enigmatic form unsettles our perception of time and place. Together, the works on display articulate Laurent Grasso’s singular artistic vocabulary. By mobilizing motifs that are both familiar and strange, he creates an expanded field of vision where history coexists with projection, science with myth, and the real with the artificial.