Laurent Proux opens second solo exhibition with GNYP Gallery

Tired dreams There is something deeply unsettling in the work of Laurent Proux. His works are not in this world to comfort, reassure, or entertain; they are not a “comfortable armchair”, quite the opposite. This uneasy feeling is perceptible, though in different ways, in both series of works presented in the artist’s newest exhibition “Out of The Blue” at GNYP Gallery in Antwerp. The artist is in fact accustomed, both in his studio practice and in his exhibitions, to pursuing two distinct paths: paths that on the one hand engage in a subtle dialogue with one another, and on the other produce a friction, an extremely fertile short circuit generated precisely by their evident differences. One trajectory brings together paintings whose subjects revolve around factory interiors where people are engaged in manual work. The images are derived from photographs taken by the artist in real factories and, in some respects, recall an aesthetic close to that of Socialist R