Rounded with a sleep
The video Rounded with a sleep shows a group of teenagers wandering through a stark natural landscape to the sound of the wind. Together they are engaged in an experiment: playing the choking game. The game consists of inducing fainting, or even hallucinations, through suffocation. The voluntary loss of consciousness between life and death, between the real and the fictitious, blurs all the player’s temporal reference points, as if in a moment suspended outside of time. This dangerous game echoes the youth of the protagonists, themselves on the border between childhood and adulthood. The looped montage of this scene illustrates Laurent Montaron’s vision of the narrative purpose of his works: “The story does not find a resolution at the end of the film, but rather in what the viewer makes of this equation between themselves and the story […] The denouement takes place off-screen.”
Text written by Léonie Maton as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
from 29 Sep 2007 to 31 Dec 2008
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 13 Sep to 03 Nov 2007
Le Grand Palais, Paris (France)
from 27 Jun to 03 Jul 2007
Le Plateau FRAC Île de France, Paris (France)
from 11 Mar to 07 Apr 2007
Printemps de septembre, Toulouse (France)
from 22 Sep to 15 Oct 2006
LMAK Projects, New-York (États-Unis)
from 25 May to 24 Jun 2006
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille (France)
from 01 Jun to 10 Jun 2006
Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Berlin (Allemagne)
from 06 Apr to 13 May 2006
Laurent Montaron
Born in 1972 in Verneuil-sur-Avre, France
Laurent Montaron s’attache à questionner notre perception du réel et du fictif, du temps et de l’espace. À travers ses films, ses installations et ses photographies, il met en perspective les techniques d’enregistrement et de reproduction de l’image et du son du XIXe siècle à nos jours en détournant certains appareils devenus obsolètes. Par ce biais, il soulève les enjeux des techniques de représentation qui influencent et conditionnent notre regard sur le monde.
Né en 1972 à Verneuil-sur-Avre (France), Laurent Montaron a été formé à l’École des Beaux-arts de Reims. Il vit et travaille à Paris.
