Within these big slices of reality shown by Stéphane Couturier, there is an “articulate proliferation” of forms, textures and materials which makes a living composite reality. Then, the photographs of Couturier, their hyperrealism and the way they deal with a mixed reality bring us to experience a new and different look. In front of them, we have to learn again to see. Not look but see: there is nothing to search for, nothing to identify but everything to take in.
Refusing any determinism of the medium, mixing argentic and digital processes, he suggests that photography may become a way to capture a possibility. The detail-oriented image we get does not serve anymore as a proof. Indeed, the photography does not prove anything anymore but is a way to invent. It re-configures other possible worlds, straight from the reality, by keeping on showing the existing ones. Other worlds are those we see through the camera or those emphasized by the subtle choices of a modular logic.
As he multiplies camera angles, photography becomes with Couturier a medium able to explore the fiction and thus he describes a new emerging reality. »
Ingrid Luquet-Gad
Stéphane Couturier – Galerie Particulière, Booth B30
At Paris Photo 2016
November 10 to 13, 2016
Grand Palais
Paris, France
