Capernaum
"This is the Caumont Art Center in Aix-en-Provence. Like the sorcerer's apprentice, hundreds of suspended objects seem to start moving towards this particular museum. The horseman from Jean Cocteau's film The Testament of Orpheus and a Nubian warrior by the orientalist painter Ludwig Deutsch guard the entrance. Inside, Yul Brynner is sitting at a table, on the phone. Is he playing Ramses II in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments or Cocteau's Orpheus? There is much to see in this palace that the desert sand is beginning to cover." - Laurent Chéhère
The ‘Flying Houses’ photomontages of Laurent Chéhère invoke a sense of wonderment, nostalgia, and limitless imagination. Informed by creative luminaries such as Jules Verne, Hayao Miyazaki, Moebius and Robert Doisneau – among others – Laurent channels hundreds of photographic elements into fantastically creative scenes, transporting us into his dream-like world. Using the cosmopolitan neighbourhoods of Paris as inspiration, Laurent isolates buildings of the urban context and releases them from the anonymity of the street.
Works by the artist are archival inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Paper and framed in black, finished with UltraVue 70 anti-reflective glazing. The 63 x 63 inch edition (if available) is finished with oversized plexiglass.
