Laurent Grasso

Souvenirs du futur, 2010

© Laurent Grasso / SOCAN (2022) • Photo: Paul Litherland

Laurent Grasso, Souvenirs du futur, © Laurent Grasso / SOCAN (2022) • Photo: Paul Litherland

© Laurent Grasso / SOCAN (2022) • Photo: Ivan Binet, courtesy of the artist

Laurent Grasso, Souvenirs du futur, © Laurent Grasso / SOCAN (2022) • Photo: Ivan Binet, courtesy of the artist

© Laurent Grasso / SOCAN (2022) • Photo: Ivan Binet, courtesy of the artist

Laurent Grasso, Souvenirs du futur, © Laurent Grasso / SOCAN (2022) • Photo: Ivan Binet, courtesy of the artist
Artist
Laurent Grasso
Title
Souvenirs du futur
Dimensions and medium
16 neon tube letters mounted on aluminum supports and transformers, 3 × 36.8 m (letters)
Origin
Gift of the artist
Artwork description
Laurent Grasso questions our visual and temporal perception of things, or more precisely, the limits of reality, our beliefs and science. Using neon as a vector of reality, Souvenirs du futur was conceived and exhibited at the Assemblée-Nationale (National Assembly) in Quebec City as part of the 5th edition of the Manif d’art de Québec, in 2010. As with his series Studies into the Past, where Grasso integrated elements of the future within a painting that had the appearance of a historical work, this installation combines the past and the future within a single historical horizon, offering a kind of futuristic vision through the eyes of the past.

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