Laurent Millet
Forming the Hypothesis
Featuring previously unseen works from a creative residency in Normandy and a retrospective of his recent photographic series, Former l’hypothèse highlights the last ten years of creative work by French artist Laurent Millet (1968), and invites visitors to explore the fruitful connections between art and science.
The exhibition showcases six photographic ensembles by Laurent Millet as satellites of his scientific imagination, and reveals new creations from his residency devoted to the astonishing human and plant anatomical models of Docteur Auzoux (Eure, 1797-1880) in the collections of the Musée de l’écorché d’anatomie in Le Neubourg, Normandy.
From Graham Bell’s savant kites to Saussure’s measurement of the blue of the sky, from Jamnitzer’s polyhedra to Euclid’s geometric shapes, the work of artist Laurent Millet has been consistently mapping out the scientific world in a highly personal way for several years now. Viewed as a powerful vector of the imagination, science is for him a place of experience and quest. As much as the invention itself, his photography gives form to the long process of research, its trial and error and the solitary peregrinations it entails. It’s not unusual to come across the silhouette of the artist, always on the move, busy constructing and manipulating. Laurent Millet appears not as a commentator but as a maker, formulating his own hypotheses from his position as an artist, using shapes.
The Centre photographique Rouen Normandie would like to thank the Musée de l’écorché d’anatomie in Le Neubourg.
The exhibition is being held as part of the Normandie Impressionniste festival, for which it has received support.