“And if the photographer got lost… In contrast to the work of German photographers Hilla and Bernd Becher 30 years ago, the series Behind the Future reinvents the notion of archives and photographic documents. And if the photographer got lost? Far from the idea of map-making, these pictures lack inventory’s rigor, no legends, unreal, without a start or a finish.The photographer wandered, hoping to find his way, felt lost, turned around, and never reappeared. Virtual, science-fictionesque, they are nevertheless documents. We are neither in the day or night, the photographic time frame is challenged, abstracted. The colors are a wide range of greens, slightly saturated when the light remained, cropped with precision: nothing seems left to chance in these “picture documents”. True backdrops of a time in history swallowed up by radioactivity, here everything is immobile, abandoned, deserted.”
Born in 1981, Nicolas Dhervilliers lives and works in Paris. After having completed commissioned work for the Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2009, his work was displayed in 2010 at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, at the Rencontres d’Arles, at the Galerie Bailly and the Galerie du Jour Agnès B, alongside Massimo Vitali. His pictures are in the collections of the Fnac, Raymond Well and Agnès B, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. In 2010 he was awarded the Prix Special du Jury Arcimboldo and the Prix du Salon de la Photographie Paris.
