Laurent Anastay Ponsolle - Désir Noir, comme la Nuit

Young artist exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in September 2025 on the occasion of the day dedicated to Young French Creation, Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle is a French expressionist artist born in 1982. Drawing, painting, collage, performance are the languages he explores with strength and spontaneity.

The work is a collage: a drawing on paper glued onto raw canvas.

In 'Black Desire like the Night,' Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle creates a canvas collage that immerses the viewer in a dark and complex exploration of desire. The title evokes a mysterious, almost unfathomable attraction, and the work reflects this feeling through layered textures and deep black hues. Fragments of paper and paint intertwine in a composition that is both chaotic and controlled, evoking the emotional intensity often accompanying unspoken desires.

The contrast between dark areas and flashes of white light creates a dramatic effect, as if desire is struggling to emerge from darkness. The visual elements appear torn and reassembled, symbolizing the fragmented nature of human emotions. This collage invites the viewer to contemplate the duality of desire: a mixture of intense passion and worry, beauty and danger. Anastay-Ponsolle powerfully captures this emotional ambivalence in a work where texture and composition play a key role in expressing the central theme.