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Laurent Grasso

Video installation — École des beaux-arts de Toulouse

laurent grasso, du soleil dans les yeux, 2001

dispositif : vidéo + texte défilant + infrabasse, 21'

son : jean-michel jeudy

courtesy galerie chez valentin, paris

Born in 1972 in Mulhouse (France), he lives in Paris.

 

A moutain seems to be about to collapse, the background noise is terrifying. In this same image we also see writings of a scientific nature scrolling past, in double exposure - writings which conjure up the possibility of controlling the human brain by the way of electro-acoustic waves. In this unsettling video titled Du soleil dans les yeux (2001), we can read this brief items, similar in the way they are made to the teletext information and news that run across the bottom of the screen, in television news programmes, keeping viewer on the edge of their seats as they wait for the revelation of a secret which, in the end of the day, will never be let out. The ways of science, like those of the Lord in earlier times, are inscrutable. A thorough and contemporary mystery.