Pierre de Fenoÿl doesn’t look for a style, rather he grasps one without any content and that is what makes a lot of noise. We like this music; it tries to focus on the infinite, a fainting heartbeat. This chance heartbeat is fascinating, he himself wrote, “You receive a photograph, you don’t take it, because you always photograph with luck.”
He questioned the identity of this luck, gave it a form that you can recognize. And isn’t recognizing someone’s luck great? This is how grasping something without content becomes the content of a life in photography. We have always been on the lookout for works that find the form to meet their challenges, this collection, however difficult, produces the evidence of this, and this belongs to one man. Pierre de Fenoÿl, without doubt, is one of those who did this, so it is natural that, since 2011 (after waiting for several years), we have been championing his work which, since then, and we are delighted about this, is in the process of being (re)discovered.
