Laurent Anastay Ponsolle - Foreplay

Self-taught painter exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in 2025, Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle expresses the tension of the body and soul in a free, instinctive, and visceral work.

In Foreplay, Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle captures the moment before — that suspended moment, filled with tension, where anything is possible. The drawing is tense, expressive, almost nervous, as if the stroke itself vibrated with anticipation. It is not about depicting an explicit scene here, but about portraying desire in its pure, elusive state.

The viewer's gaze is invited to guess, to interpret. The bodies are sketched, intertwined, on the border of abstraction. Eroticism is present, but diffuse, like an underground current that disturbs and excites. A work on the threshold, both suggestive and modest.