" We are here not to see but not to see"

Juan De la Cruz

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Since 2004, Laurent Quin has been exploring creative processes tending towards haptics. and duplication. By a singular relation to the plane and to the material qualities of the image, he qualifies painting or photography in a definition of the event where taking shape introduces the need for a dialectic of non-completion.

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If the work is marked with a strong power of evocation of the history of art from antiquity to the present day, it is not for the simple pleasure of the story or to perceive a material substance to which we owe tender but by the play of hollow networks, in reliefs and overlaps, to the stimulating experience of the figural: to see but in the polysemous behavior of the language of seeing, to invent on the fringe of the visible between fixity and movement.

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Binding and unbinding from what they potentially conceal the plastic figures, most often frontal, flush with a matrix surface (also that of the tomb) absorbed by the night or out of the silty mud of the formless matter before creation.

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The primate of the mandorla becomes a bubble of dreams and the organic scheme takes on the hints of powerful plant structure. In the emptiness of a face or of a garment, lives the memory of a presence containing all the potentialities.

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