Empty boxes. Joseph Cornell boxes. From which Cornell would have escaped.

Abandoning the stars, the world maps, the paper figurines and the fragments of glass piled up there somewhat haphazardly.

All that remains of the box is the structure. The skeleton. The volume. The lines of force. Everything else has disappeared or fallen silent.

Other paper works align lines, folds, layers, and transparencies. Or they superimpose folds and transparencies.

It's as if the void itself were weighed, structured, and precisely delineated.

Graphically expressed. By combining small, fragile elements. – It is thus the shadow of the paper that accentuates the fold on the canvas.

As for the graph paper, its obsessive regularity underlines the uncertain geometry of the whole.

Because the elements in play (lines, geometric figures, spaces of the line or the sheet, limits of the canvas) can tip over at any moment... and the lines become foggy.

Faced with a drawing threatened by weightlessness, Laurent Jaffrenou multiplies (like so many cobwebs) the scaffolding, the frames and the cables of the line.

Florence de Meredieu