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Laurent Grasso's Enigmatic Cloud Installation at Galleria Extraspazio

exhibition · 2026-04-23

Laurent Grasso's installation at Galleria Extraspazio in Rome (September 22 – October 15, 2005) presents a multi-part work exploring deviant experiences of reality through projection and electronic materials. The installation comprises five photographs, a transparent neon sign, a monitor, and a screen projection, all depicting different versions of a single enigmatic event: a condensation cloud filmed in slow backward tracking as it glides along the ground like a rumor spreading through city streets, deforming and reforming. The neon sign reads 'projection' and its extensions trace a cloud shape. At the gallery entrance, the same film plays in black and white on an old monitor inside a glass cube. Grasso's work emphasizes the dual nature of projection as both material effect and spiritual presence, creating a closed, looping space that generates unease and invites the spectator to experience a perturbation and intensification of space-time. The exhibition also ran from October 29 to December 3, 2005, at Galerie Chez Valentin.

Key facts

  • Laurent Grasso's installation at Galleria Extraspazio, Rome, from September 22 to October 15, 2005.
  • The installation includes five photographs, a transparent neon sign, a monitor, and a screen projection.
  • The central image is a condensation cloud filmed in slow backward tracking, gliding along the ground.
  • The neon sign reads 'projection' and its extensions form a cloud shape.
  • At the entrance, the same film plays in black and white on an old monitor inside a glass cube.
  • Grasso's work explores deviant experiences of reality, psychic and sensory realities, using projection and electronic materials.
  • The installation emphasizes the dual nature of projection as material effect and spiritual presence.
  • The work creates a closed, looping space that generates unease and intensifies space-time.
  • The exhibition also ran from October 29 to December 3, 2005, at Galerie Chez Valentin.
  • Christophe Kihm wrote about the exhibition in art press.

Entities

Artists

  • Laurent Grasso

Institutions

  • Galleria Extraspazio
  • Galerie Chez Valentin
  • art press

Locations

  • Rome
  • Italy

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