BLACK INTERVENING OBJECTS is a project specially developed by Laurent Ajina for the gallery Rauminhalt that joins space and content through drawings. The artist has chosen a series of outstanding objects from various epochs for their aesthetics, functionality, and enigmatic character. An additional common denominator is their black colour. The artist will then take possession of the space by creating drawings in perspective to the objects that are unusual for their history and ‘soul’.

As a creator of space, Laurent Ajina occupies a territory he has been entrusted with and modifies it by making direct reference to it and confronting it with its own creative environment. The artist treats architecture pictorially in order to offer a new way of viewing the urban space. In this process, in which the immediate environment—the space – serves as the creative catalyst, the artist transposes this very space into an in-situ installation that incorporates a monumental drawing and video.

Laurent Ajina was born in Paris in 1970. Initially he studied architecture, later turning his attention entirely to the fine arts. Laurent Ajina is currently an artist in residence at Centquatre, one of the leading cultural institutions in Paris.