Through February 23rd, Le Cercle, an arts space in Quebec, will be holding the exhibition 185 HEURES by Renaud Philippe. A photojournalist and founder of the STIGMAT collective, Philippe’s series was shot on the roads crossing Canada from east to west. Aboard a bus and armed with a small Fuji camera— for which he is ambassador —he performed a “photographic meditation” while seeking to transcend the boundaries of the image. Philippe sees the work as more of an exercise. Rather than seeking contact with others, he tried to go outside his comfort zone and remained in isolation throughout the 185-hour trip. His photographs evoke his dreamlike journey, between sleep and waking, a search for the self and his approach to photography, a quest without any purpose but introspection. Unlike his other documentary projects, which were always subject to constraints, the photographer allowed himself this “parenthetical journey” of personal questioning.
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