Laurent Grasso's Enigmatic Cloud Installation at Galleria Extraspazio

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.