Jan de Lauré

The work of Jan De Lauré(1978) is at once modest and grand. It is modest in its artistic ethos. It denies itself any external, media-driven bravura. It does not take part in the game of attention effects on the art scene. De Lauré produces few works, because he gives each work the time it demands, and that is a great deal of time, a long and slow time. He claims no subject matter, unlike so many artists today who are visible as representatives of a theme, an emotional approach, or even a socio-political engagement. The scale is rarely monumental, but neither is it intimate; it i a choice made anew for each work.

His images arise from his personal inability to forget them. They passed through his perception and remained lodged there. Nothing more. He does not explain them, he does not appropriate them, he does not wish to understand them. A strange image that goes beyond the strange, a lost photograph that is not found but finds itself. He respects the fact that they grip him and proceeds from there. He becomes their medium. From the impact they have on him, he allows them to appear with the full attention they therefore deserve.