ENTRY DESCRIPTION

Analog photography taken with an old Russian Lubitel from 1954 and an Orwo film expired since 1983. Seascape of French Brittany, summer 2019.

AUTHOR
A fan of Wabi-Sabi, the Japanese philosophy of accepting and recognizing beauty in the imperfection of things around us, I create images of the present time so that they appear to emerge from another era. The term "wabi" evokes simplicity, solitude, rusticism and elegance at the same time, that of "sabi" the beauty that has lived, the enhancement of age and wear, the patina.

A touch of destruction, random scratches, grain, defects, unexpected stains, an outdated tone, my images look like photographs from an old time, although they are nowadays. I am trying to talk about time, the one who passes, the one who remains, the things and the living that go through it. It is a question of soliciting the reader, or the spectator, about his own place, to propose to him to question himself on his temporary presence in the face of the sustainability of things.

By adopting old silver cameras and using outdated black & white films, I insinuate myself into the very questioning of my approach: as the custodian of this material, I intend to extend its use, to seek its defect and to create additional ones, in order to deliciously approach the imperfect.

In my Gallery of Douarnenez, as well as on art fairs and on online sales sites, I propose pigment prints on washi paper, laminated on canvases on large, medium or small format frames, with effect of matter and outlines in Indian ink, which I produce in my studio.

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