Laurent Grasso

Laurent Grasso (born 1972) is a French conceptual artist living and working in Paris. Biography Laurent Grasso is the recipient of the esteemed Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2015, and 2008 respectively. Currently based in Paris, he has held residencies at the Villa Medici, Rome and ISCP, New York. In 2015, Grasso was solicited by the French National Archives to create a film on the aesthetics of power and its agents. The resulting work ‘Élysée’, set in the French Presidential office’s Salon Doré to the soundtrack created by Nicolas Godin, debuted in Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong in March 2016. Since then it has since been broadcast in Europe on numerous occasions, including the Nuit européenne des musées 2016.