[...] As he sat at the base of the Piz Mezzaun in Switzerland and the Sandkogel mountain in Austria in 2010, he began feverishly drawing the lines and forms before him. "I always have the same approach. When I travel, I look for the most opportune locations. When I find one, I begin rapidly drawing the image before me, obsessively recreating the same motif one after another by the hundreds.” Eighty sheets of graph paper; an exercise of repetition progressively engraving the image in his mind.  It's a matter of rhythm and mastering the strokes. Once the sheets of paper are reunited, the original motif is set into motion and is transformed by the artist's efforts. The title of the works calls us to Come Closer and examine the lines that float and move. The mountain fades away leaving in its place a series of drawings whose progressive modulations testify to the rigorous and breathtaking relationship between the artist, his subject, and the paper.

Deviation (Extract), 2010

[...] The procedure never changes: he fixes his eyes on an element and reproduces it hundreds of times. Just as a skater rides his board on the pavement, Ajina’s charcoal slides along the surface of the graph paper, his own half-pipe that gives him the lift he needs to execute his trick. The exercise of endlessly drawing the same image is arduous but necessary to get the image ‘locked’ in his mind. These are the only drawings he does in front of his subject, capturing angles from all around the world as he seeks the ultimate location: Istanbul, Zuoz, Basel, Naples, Vienna, Paris, Los Angeles, New York.
 Movement plays a crucial role in Laurent Ajina’s work; his flexibility, fluidity and capacity to foresee where his next step will lead him are essential to the esthetics of his work.
Constructions Relationnelles, (Extract), 2012