« Eclats d'amour - carte blanche à Laurent Pernot » au Musée Postal

Musée Postal

Drawing on the museum's collections, and in particular on old correspondence, Laurent Pernot has conceived an exhibition devoted to "love in times of war". By bringing forth fragments of intimate words that cross through conflicts, from the Siège de Paris to contemporary periods, he unfolds a sensitive vision in which the persistence of emotional bonds confronts history and the passage of time. A multidisciplinary artist, Laurent Pernot develops a body of work at the crossroads of video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation. His approach explores time, memory and the fragility of existence, while also questioning the relationships between man and nature. Nourished by literary, poetic and philosophical references, his work establishes suspended spaces conducive to contemplation. While discovering old letters in the museum's collections, he singled out fragments of love and tenderness that reveal a permanence of emotions throughout conflicts. These voices, coming from different eras, constitute the starting point and the guiding thread of his project. A few words of love… The works brought together for this carte blanche express, in various forms, the circulation and persistence of words of love in times of war. With Lettres aux vents, correspondence carried by balloons during the Siège de Paris is reinterpreted on lightweight paper and then assembled into an airborne mobile, where fragments of sentences, highlighted with silver leaf, seem to continue their journey. Other pieces are anchored in a denser materiality: documents, photographs and texts are collected, transformed and transposed onto different media, mixing eras and voices within a single composition. The words, sometimes taken from letters by writers or anonymous individuals, also unfold in space in suspended form, their altered letters evoking the ordeal of time and the violence of conflicts as much as the strength of the emotional bond. Elsewhere, everyday objects, such as a letterbox frozen in ice, extend this reflection by suggesting a time that has stopped, where feelings are preserved despite adversity. Finally, fragments of correspondence appear in projected form, creating a continuous flow that brings these old words closer to a contemporary language, like a conversation that continues through time.

Source: Paris Open Data ↗