Alone in Tokyo

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Laurent Minguet
Alone in Tokyo, 2026

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

With this screenprint, Laurent Minguet lingers on a paradox rarely captured with such accuracy: that of one of the world’s densest cities, which can nonetheless offer a form of quiet, almost soothing solitude.

The scene unfolds at the edge of movement, beneath a railway line, at the intersection of multiple trajectories. Cables, metal structures, and vertical signage form a dense, almost saturated visual network, where everything seems under tension. And yet, nothing spills over. Everything is held, organized, controlled.

In the foreground, the pedestrian crossing opens up the space. It acts as a silent invitation to step into the image, to cross this suspended fragment of the city. In the background, the train moves almost discreetly, like a steady pulse within this urban mechanism.

The luminous intervention in the sky, with these white lines stretching and dissolving, introduces a poetic break. It softens the rigidity of the structure, like an inverted rain or a graphic breath that lightens the whole composition.

The choice of cherry wood as a support plays a key role here. The grain subtly emerges through the image, bringing warmth and humanity to a scene otherwise dominated by steel, concrete, and lines.

More than a view of Tokyo, Laurent Minguet offers a sensation: that of an unexpected balance between complexity and calm, where the individual finds their place, alone, yet never lost.

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