Laurent Montaron

Born in 1972 in Verneuil-sur-Avre (France), he lives in Paris.

Laurent Montaron is keenly aware of the narrative processes of film and the mechanisms of dreams. He plays with viewers' expectations, conscious and unconscious alike, in order to draw them into an enigmatic atmosphere. The narrative gets jammed and the suspense remains, maintained by repetition and looping. Be it in his photographic installations, his appropriations of objects, or his films and his sound pieces, the artist strives to blur sensory and mental landmarks in order to arouse doubt and leave the viewer poised on the edge of a fiction. His film, Rounded With a Sleep, follows a group of teenagers indulging in the hallucinogenic thrill of suffocation (the scarf game), in a setting of isolated and flower-strewn moorland. Punctuated by wind and breathing, the succession of images conveys the initiatory teetering between life and death.

For le Printemps de septembre, Laurent Montaron produced an acoustic installation centring on the recording of an orchestra trying to tune its different instruments on the fluctuating "la" tone of a telephone.