04July17October2026
Laurent Proux exhibition – Ground Melody
The Thursday 15 October at 14 a.m00
L'Artothèque, Espaces d'art contemporain de Caen Impasse Duc Rollon 14000 CAEN
Born in Versailles in 1980, Laurent Proux lives and works in Paris. He is a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and Hamburg. As a painter and draughtsman, he produces powerful new imagery that explores the tensions between the human body and its environment, whether industrial or natural. His large-format paintings oscillate between realistic evocations of the body at work captured in its production setting, and deconstructed bodies with lascivious poses and stretched limbs, agglomerating in the midst of an abundant nature that seems to engulf them. Somewhere between figuration and abstraction, his works combine blurred perspectives, bright, artificial colours and superimposed planes, all of which combine to form a work of strong composition that is subtly political and rarely innocent. For the Ground Melody exhibition, the artist is pursuing her research through the production of paintings and prints inspired by images gleaned from the gardens of the city of Caen and nurtured by encounters with those who care for them.
With the support of Galerie Semiose (Paris). As part of the Normandie Impressionniste festival.
