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Laurent Proux, Textile Workers II, 2023
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Laurent Proux, Hotel Bedroom I, 2023
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Laurent Proux, Under the Tree II (Harvest), 2023
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Laurent Proux, Under the Tree III, 2023
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Laurent Proux, The Escape, 2023
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Laurent Proux, Cannibal Sun, 2023
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Laurent Proux, Mer du Nord, 2023
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Laurent Proux, L'Arbre, 2023
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Laurent Proux, Les Noces solaires, 2022
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Laurent Proux, Les naufragés, 2022
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Laurent Proux, Dans les herbes hautes II (Le crépuscule), 2022
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Laurent Proux, Dans la forêt III, 2021
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Laurent Proux, Secret, 2021
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Laurent Proux, Couple V, 2021
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Laurent Proux, Dans la forêt IV, 2021
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Laurent Proux, Couple IV, 2021
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Laurent Proux, Couple III, 2021
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Laurent Proux, 5 rue Jean Robert, 2021
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Laurent Proux, Clairière (couple I), 2021
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Laurent Proux, Tête dans l'herbe (n°7), 2021
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Laurent Proux, Tête dans l'herbe (n°11), 2021
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Laurent Proux, Tête dans l'herbe (n°9), 2021
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Laurent Proux, Dans la forêt I, 2020
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Laurent Proux, Salle de repos, 2018
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Laurent Proux, Oreille (accident), 2018
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Laurent Proux, Les opérateurs, 2018
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Laurent Proux, La jungle éléctrique, 2018
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Laurent Proux, Roses et épines, 2018
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Laurent Proux, Faut pas, 2017
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Laurent Proux, Pulp II, 2017
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Laurent Proux, Éléphant, 2017
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Laurent Proux, Protégez vos yeux, 2017
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Laurent Proux, Aujourd'hui... demain, 2017
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Laurent Proux, Couple II, 2017
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Laurent Proux, Couple I, 2016
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Laurent Proux, Découpe, 2015
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Laurent Proux, Fagots. Partizanskaya, Moscou, 2010
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Laurent Proux, Taxiphone, Sonnenalle, Berlin (2), 2010
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Laurent Proux, Taxiphone, Sonnenallee, Berlin (1), 2009
Born in Versailles in 1980, Laurent Proux lives and works in Paris. In his painting and drawing, Laurent Proux produces powerful and original imagery that seeks through his formal choices to resolve the questions raised by his subjects. Described by some as a realist due to the subjects he depicts—industrial machinery, workstations, sexualized bodies, etc.—his style finds its emancipation through his never-ending exploration of pictorial solutions, the integration of aberrations, bringing planes into collision, the use of artificial colors, all freeing his oeuvre from the opposition between figuration and abstraction. He approaches the human form through fragments, exaggeration and the use of silhouettes to create a kind of body-cum-machine, politicized and under assault, often disturbing and occasionally sentimental. His canvases take the form of a stage, in an altered perspective and the artist addresses the spectator with a visual and intellectual enigma running through the image.
Laurent Proux’s first institutionnal solo exhibition is taking place at the Musée de l’Abbaye in Saint-Claude (FR) in 2025. His oeuvres are included in the collections of the National Center for Visual Arts (CNAP), the Occitan, Limousin and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regional contemporary art collections (FRAC) and the Paris Municipal Collection (FMAC). His work has been exhibited at the Mana Contemporary in Chicago (US), the Shanghai Art Museum (CN), the Moscow Center for Contemporary Art (RU), the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lyon (FR), the Limousin FRAC in Limoges (FR), at the Lieu Commun in Toulouse (FR) and at the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix aux Sables-d'Olonne (FR). Laurent Proux was a resident of the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid (ES).