Curated by the rich mind of Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello, The Saint Laurent Rive Droite has invited contemporary artist Laurent Pernot to exhibit his artworks at the dual-city store locations of Paris and Los Angeles. Expanding on methods of experimentation through temporal, poetic, and immersive processes, drawing on literature, poetry, mythology, and beyond, Pernot articulates the experiences of time and memory across various media and forms of expression. This ethereal presentation highlights a series of Pernot paintings from his “The Contemplations” series.

A celebrator of the renowned Victor Hugo, Pernot pulls inspiration from Hugo’s expansive collection of poems by the same name that experimented with the idea of an autobiography in verse. Crafted of painted inlaid wood and scraps of natural marble that have been meticulously collaged together, Pernot’s paintings depict images referencing a wide range of art historical and cultural sources, lending an air of contemplative dreaminess in which disparate geographies, eras, and tempos have been suspended. With works from 2015 to present, this presentation contemplates the artist’s persistent concern with notions of man and nature, transience and eternality, memory and oblivion, and history and love.

At the Saint Laurent Rive Droite store in Paris, 9 works by Laurent Pernot including Our Endless Love (2021), Into the Cloud (2022), A Rainbow Above the Tears (2022), and Still Life (The Bike) (2015) will be displayed. Concurrently at the Los Angeles Rive Droite store 10 works like The memory of our love shall bridge the ages (2021), Behind the Garden (2022), and The Bay Before Sunset (2022) are being explored. 

Named as a nod to Saint Laurent’s rive gauche line, that helped to democratize fashion and luxury in the sixties, the exclusive retail destination for expression, exchange, and lifestyle – The Saint Laurent Rive Droite – showcases a wide range of products, including exclusive pieces, limited editions, library, vintage, music, photography combined with art, performances, exhibitions, events, and cultural exchanges. Conceptualized by Anthony Vaccarello, the extensive and diversified offer from different creative and design fields is imagined and embraced in new ways to enlarge the universe and the DNA of Saint Laurent.