Multidisciplinary artist

lives in Berlin and works in Paris and Berlin

In his wanderings, between Paris and Berlin Laurent POLEO-GARNIER eclectic artist, photographer, videographer, dancer and performer searches for himself and sometimes finds others.

His photos are the trace of meetings, relationships that he initiates with chosen and cherished models. Staging them, taking care of every detail from make-up to styling, he thus creates a sentimental family and his photos become precious archives, document of a moment, of a story with his model, moment of exchange and projection. simultaneously, offering new self-knowledge.

His numerous self-portraits reveal his taste for the theatrical form and pay homage to visions of periods fantasized and reinterpreted to anchor themselves in the present.

Dance and movement complete its expression of gentle violence. Performing almost naked, dancing everywhere or parading in drag queen the city is his territory.

Self-mockery, nostalgia, pastiche, winks are numerous to those who inspire him.

Through the metamorphosis of his models and his own Laurent POLEO-GARNIER questions identity and intimacy, the relationship in a multidisciplinary practice.