Alone in San Francisco

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Laurent Minguet
Alone in San Francisco, 2026

Screenprint on cherry wood
60 × 36 cm (64 × 40 cm framed)
Limited edition of 30 signed and numbered copies

Laurent Minguet captures that rare moment when an iconic city ceases to be spectacular and becomes almost intimate.

At first glance, the scene appears simple: a sloping street, typical of San Francisco, still quiet. But very quickly, the eye is drawn into the rigor of the lines — those of the rails, which carve a taut perspective toward the horizon, almost hypnotic. Everything converges, everything pulls toward that vanishing point where the city either opens up… or disappears.

The contrast between the dense black and white of the architecture and the luminous intervention in the sky creates a subtle break. This light, almost liquid, seems to glide across the composition like a breath. It does not describe a sky; it establishes an atmosphere — that of a fragile morning, when the city has not yet fully reclaimed itself.

The choice of cherry wood reinforces this sensation. The grain subtly emerges through the image, bringing an unexpected warmth to an otherwise structured, almost rigid urban scene — as if the material itself were softening the geometry.

Here, Laurent Minguet does not narrate San Francisco. He distills a precise sensation: that of a suspended moment, poised between solitude and promise, when the city still belongs to the one who moves through it.

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