“My photographic work has always emerged from body and stone, two elements that have appeared in my work for years. Two seemingly different materials that I sought to unite with a third: memory. Body has short term memory, marked by life’s passage.”
But the body breaks down, ages and suffers from the passage of time. Stones travel through time. They don’t last a lifetime, rather they survive through numerous lifetimes, like a witness,of our collective memory. Through religion, politics and art, man seeks to leave his mark in stone, long-lasting, remaining present, as if attached to a place, a time, leaving traces of the present.
Present or future? A photographic image relies on exactitude, but I would like to reach where interior pictures overflow, where their exterior reflection reveals the interior, my interior, our interiors. I would like to create impertinent images: do they appear? Disappear? They are to be defined, captivating body representations that allow fleeting observation of forms that appear (or disappear…) of which the spectator is conscious. Whatever the forms, the spectator must consider them on the exterior through eyes, and on the interior with thoughts.
Stéphane Diremszian was born in Lyon in 1975. He lives and works in Lyon.
