Laurent Mareschal (b. 1975) lives and works in Paris.
Beiti (2011)

Laurent Mareschal’s Beiti (2011)—meaning “my house” in Arabic—is a large-scale installation of mosaic tiles made from aromatic spices central to Palestinian and other Middle Eastern culinary traditions. These fragrant elements fade over time, tugging at memory in ways that are hard to articulate, while also evoking the devastation of many cultural practices in the Middle East.
“In Mareschal videos, installations and performances, Laurent Mareschal uses unexpected ways. During the displacement of symbolic contexts, a simple gesture becomes the support to a political confrontation, a game turns into a desperate fight against time, a friendly meeting around an ephemeral installation gives rise to historical stories. In 2011, Ashdod Art Museum published his first monographic catalogue.” (Words by Anna Olszewska)

Recent solo exhibitions include:
The Thinking Forest, Dohyang Lee Gallery, Paris, France (2024);
The Taste Of The Others, Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry-sur-Seine (Paris), France (2022);
Black Sun, La Maréchalerie, Versailles, France (2021);
The Surveyor, castle of Fougères-sur-Bièvre, France (2021).

Recent group exhibitions include:
Perfumes From The East, Saudi Arabia National Museum, Riyad, Saudi Arabia (2024)
Art in the Chapels, Brittany, France (2024)
The Third Space, Beit Ha Geffen Art Center, Haifa, Israel (2024)
Sand, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany (2023).

Supported by: French Embassy in Prishtina