Laurent Millet, Photographies

A world is born - Laurent Millet makes us believe in worlds that only belong to him. Is it by using a piece of truth that he takes from the real world? (…). Because this really deals with a birth - Such a world can not be invented, such a world cannot be simply tinkered with trifle, it should spring up from somewhere and raise by itself with its own laws. Indeed, these laws are not self-willed, they do not come from a pure spirit free decision, no. Laurent Millet guesses them, discovers them, listens to them and then obeys them, revealing us the world-part he reports as a pattern-painter capturing a sensitive part of the world truth. This truth is then neither strong neither accomplished - as recognised and named shapes - it is genesis, motion, and witnesses the shapes life that deal with creation mystery, with every creation, with the invisible and continuous acting of the soul. That is finally why every construction has a sense that overcomes more or less the amount of the operations done; that is why every separated-acts production answers to the continuous motion of a spirit that acts outside to spray around him his inside order - an order that the spirit expresses by realising beings and numbers in the world. As each of our members respond to the same and never-ending need, as each tree-branch takes its origins from a unique and unpredictable faith, every construction is raising and, in the same time, our thought translation by continuous flow of discontinuous actions. Art, and self-construction art processes can be compared to Nature when they do not have predicted aims. That is how every artist follows the Nature work with his own technical averages.
Stéphane Gruet, Extraits d’un texte consacré, à la série «Cabanes», 2000, dans la revue Poïesis n°14, 2002.


		Opennig
	Exhibition	Opennig



Introducing his new exploration - LES ZOZIOS - Laurent Millet leaves the surges and tides to settle the (almost) virgin surfaces of an apartment, open aviary for odd birds carrying a domesticated and free semiotic. For the rest, by investigating the modern-art basic signs Laurent Millet finds a new freedom. Considering these "post-it" casually used in the pictures, LES ZOZIOS declare the advent of an unprecedented aesthetic meditation method. Message becomes a layer and the picture takes back its timeless sign function, as a constantly-reinvented artistic alphabet . Around the ZOZIOS, time is no longer a matter of strong entropy but looks like a much subtler and random pulse. Light becomes the landscape and the gallery becomes a playground for the effervescent and unpredictable birds. Represetend by New-York and Paris galleries, Laurent Millet keeps on giving his talented dreamer eye without inflicting the distant and over-ceremonious position of his fellow artists. There is no gravity, but brightness is here. Nicolas Zabraniecki, Forum de l'Image



A world is born - Laurent Millet makes us believe in worlds that only belong to him. Is it by using a piece of truth that he takes from the real world? (…). Because this really deals with a birth - Such a world can not be invented, such a world cannot be simply tinkered with trifle, it should spring up from somewhere and raise by itself with its own laws. Indeed, these laws are not self-willed, they do not come from a pure spirit free decision, no. Laurent Millet guesses them, discovers them, listens to them and then obeys them, revealing us the world-part he reports as a pattern-painter capturing a sensitive part of the world truth. This truth is then neither strong neither accomplished - as recognised and named shapes - it is genesis, motion, and witnesses the shapes life that deal with creation mystery, with every creation, with the invisible and continuous acting of the soul. That is finally why every construction has a sense that overcomes more or less the amount of the operations done; that is why every separated-acts production answers to the continuous motion of a spirit that acts outside to spray around him his inside order - an order that the spirit expresses by realising beings and numbers in the world. As each of our members respond to the same and never-ending need, as each tree-branch takes its origins from a unique and unpredictable faith, every construction is raising and, in the same time, our thought translation by continuous flow of discontinuous actions. Art, and self-construction art processes can be compared to Nature when they do not have predicted aims. That is how every artist follows the Nature work with his own technical averages. Stéphane Gruet, Extraits d’un texte consacré, à la série «Cabanes», 2000, dans la revue Poïesis n°14, 2002.