"Laurent Lacotte's art is an art in resistance. Each creation is conditioned by a physical and political dimension. The first one is expressed in the work, whether it is walking, sweeping, sewing, answering the phone or even stoned, the physical fatigue seems to be the condition required to evoke the world. To experience one's body in order to consider the other. When he performs, Laurent Lacotte puts himself in people's shoes, makes a transfer each time, does not cheat. He has always used fragile, precarious, perishable materials in the elaboration of his pieces, so that they are often ephemeral. The artist is in the immediacy of the present that photography allows him to fix. If his interventions last, it is because the images summon, not without humor but without hiding, the dark part of humanity, the tumults of the world. From these human drifts, the artist draws up a catalog of the gestures of the anthropocene, subjectivized, poetized, politicized."
Extract from the text of Guillaume Lasserre accompanying the exhibition "Dérives" at the Urban Gallery, Marseille, May-June 2021.