“He plays with the ordinary and the banal to make life come out, not the still life, which would mean accepting life and the presence of objects. Far beyond a simple representation, he dismantles the nature of reality. It is as if the artist had given still life a new twist: these pictures drift away from their subjects. Their pure states take the place of the object to offer the spectator the forms of latencies, vacuities and the qualms of the photographer. These photographs change and bring a kind of crisis, their plastic beauty, questioning what is decorative and its close corollary, kitsch.” – Jacques Damez
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