Laurent Anastay Ponsolle - Blackened Love

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 canvas.

Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle here explores with intensity the bodily and emotional tension. The treatment of the body is fragmented, almost decomposed, with a superposition of incisive graphic lines and broad areas of white and black paint. The stark contrast between the deep black background and the pale tones of the body creates an atmosphere that is both intimate and troubled.

The hands, nervous and clenched, seem to seek an anchor, a grip, or perhaps try to push back an invisible embrace. The transparency of the pencil strokes and the thick material of the paint converse in a duality of control and letting go. This tension is reinforced by the dark drips at the bottom of the canvas, which give the work a visceral dimension, as if the feeling of love is flowing out, dissolving into the shadow.

The work oscillates between abstraction and figuration, leaving the viewer faced with an emotional ambiguity: is it an embrace or an attempt to escape? This exploration of touch and distance gives it a universal resonance, where desire and loss confront each other in a silent dance.