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Renard, Emilie. " Critic's Picks, Paris : Raymond Hains and Matthieu Laurette", Artforum.com, (July,2002) 
July 2002 - Artforum.com
Raymond Hains and Matthieu Laurette
GALERIE JOUSSE ENTREPRISE
24 rue Louise Weiss
June 01 - July 27
What happens when two artists meet? When Raymond Hains, 75, meets Matthieu Laurette, 32, what do they do? They talk, ramble, wander, make note of where they are, retrace their path—and photograph each other in the process. Places, things, and people blend in these verbal games of chance, visual associations, and tourist trails. The documents of their peregrinations are on view at Galerie Jousse Enterprise, built on simple homonyms and, even, on more obscure references. One of the Jousse families is recomposed for the occasion based on the works of ancestor Marcel Jousse (1886–1961), the creator of an anthropology of gesture who once wrote a text entitled Chewing Language, in which he proposed that one ought to "eat" the words in order to understand a text, and to do so according to a special recipe created by Philippe Jousse, the chef at the Alain Chapel restaurant in Lyon. On a trip to Saint Malo and Mont Saint-Michel, two popular tourist destinations in the north of France, Hains photographed the Galerie Laurette, an artisanal gallery owned by Matthieu Laurette's parents, and Laurette standing in front of old high school. Laurette, in turn, photographed Hains at the Musée Grévin sitting around with Jean-Paul Sartre or looking at Picasso. In reformulating their relations to cities and their environment by new linguistic and visual modes, Hains and Laurette construct new images of themselves and their respective worlds.
—Emilie Renard
Translated from French by Saul Anton.
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