“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
Born in 1976 Philippe Pétremant lives and works in Lyon, France. After studying at the école des beaux arts of Saint-Etienne, he received his DNSE in 2001, at the time of the first pictures of the “Vacuité(s)” series. In 2002 he joined the Le Réverbère gallery, which presented his work to the Paris Photo fair, after exhibiting his work in Amsterdam in the maison Descartes (Institut français of the Netherlands) and participating to the Jeune Création fair in La Villette.
EXHIBITION
Les Sept Mercenaires
Festival Circulation(s)
February 22 – March 31, 2013
Parc de Bagatelle
Paris, France
