Because of the mechanical nature of its technical function, photography is for me a matter of time rather than a visual matter : in its silver salts, or its pixels today, it is time which is captured, preserved, reinvented at every glance. Time of life, time of vision, time of poetry.
Painting is the original material of plastic work, which is intimately connected with photography, because it also contains the time of its gesture and its imagination.
Artistic installation, the existence in space and time of artistic forms is crucial because it is the way in which the work is modified by its relation to the spectator.
These practices interact with my work as a filmmaker, have always intermingled.
Series of photographs taken at the Domain of Chamarande (Essonne, France) on January 1, 2021.
A year standing.The sun in the trees, illuminating the earth, water and nature of which we are a part, on this first day of a new year, fills me with wonder and brings me these wishes, inspired by the words of my friends. I recite them to (...)