Laurent Grasso: Orchid Island

Perrotin presents a solo exhibition by Laurent Grasso at Perrotin Paris. Grasso reconsiders the landscape tradition by making the familiar unfamiliar, thereby allowing it to be freshly perceived. His project derived from a series of questions about what it means to represent an idealised version of nature while the real wilderness is vanishing. Are painted landscapes souvenirs of a lost paradise? Ethnocentric emblems of Western imperialism? Signifiers of political and social relations that are concealed? Or are they vehicles for a metaphysical world?