Laurent Grasso
Date of birth : 1972
Country : france
Born 1972 in Mulhouse, France
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Laurent Grasso is a contemporary French artist and sculptor, working with video, structures and installations. He was an artist in residence at the Villa Médicis for the 2004-2005 season and received the Marcel Duchamp Prize at the 2008 FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris.
Laurent Grasso (re)activates forms that can be identified as part of our society’s systems of control, and distorts the cinematographic techniques and conventions that shape our collective imagination. In doing so, he creates environments with strong narrative potential where universal ancestral fears mingle with threatening contemporary scientific and mythological accounts.