Vera Lutter forges a peculiar acquiescence to the world that escapes one’s grasp and must be clarified. Using the negative and camera obscura, through an effect of distancing, the artist…
Author Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
Chuck Samuels vit et travaille à Montréal. New-York à travers la galerie Champart vient d’accueillir « Before the camera » qui fit scandale au Québec. L’artiste se scénarise de manière…
The Chinese photographer Fengyuan Fing developes a unique universe. There coming across a dreamlike atmosphere, surrealist influences, retro iconography, realism, reminiscences of Japanese (Ozu) and Hollywood cinema like a painting…
After a long search for a suitable medium, Philippe Ordioni chose photography. It has become his language. His encounter with the visual artist Rodia Bayginot led him to create over…
American photographer Dana Hoey indubitably reverses the role typically assigned to women in photography in her sophisticated scenography. There are several ‘openings’ to these images, such as desire, domination and…
What is it that a photograph unlocks? What happens to this one word among others when the nudity in the portrait unlocks it, that is to say, is it made…
For Jan Saudek, without the female body — living and thinking, and guaranteeing continuity over time — the universe would never know itself and would be unknowable to anyone else.…
Sabine Pigalle works on portraits in a sense of play that does not exclude seriousness; on the contrary, it allows her to unhinge the visual language, the history of costumes,…
In the work of Paulina Otylie Surys everything is hushed but incisive. Every image is a sigh that conjures up virtual yet magical moments. It offers the velvety enigma of…
James Freidman avec sa nouvelle série permet une digression fantaisiste mais plus sérieuse qu'il n'y paraît. Il propose des baisers à sourire, des baisers à pleurer d'émotion, des baisers malices,…