I’m motionless on a roadside, on a street corner, in a distant country… I’m engaged by the passing faces, those who wear their existence, their weight, their joy. I fly. And perhaps, in a wordless face-to-face, we observe each other. I entrust you with a secret, from me to you, I love you…
A tenuous, fragile thread is born of these ephemeral encounters. A look disappears, another appears, hides and then offers itself. Mat Jacob builds relationships. He seizes the elsewhere, captures the essence, to make visible the invisible. Behind the filter of the camera, he records these fleeting instants, these brief visual correspondences. Photography becomes the sensitive register of memory. “De vous à Moi” (“From you to Me”) are impressions that we preciously preserve; a poetic way to pay tribute to human diversity. From these silent images emanate the gentle sound of what cannot be said. Glances that cross and are caught, like so many fireflies twinkling at the threshold of the world.
Mat Jacob
He was born in 1966 in Paris.
Grace, fraternity and struggles are at the heart of Mat Jacobs’ work. His photographic transcriptions weave poetry and tension. Vigilant, Mat Jacob questions both the contemporary world as that, elusive, of emotions. His vibrant memory resonates and enriches the present. His demanding clarity nourishes a generous and serious utopia.
1988 First trip in Hong Kong.
1991 Creation of Tendance Floue.
1993-2001 Publication of Mondes de l’école, Marval Edition, Paris, and Villa Médicis Off The Wall, with Olivier Culmann.
2002-2003 Publication of Chiapas-Mexico, Atlantica Edition, Biarritz, and 3rd Prize World Press Photo « General news ».
2008 Exhibition « Les Mondes de l’école » at Eiffel Tour, Paris.
2008-2011 Publication of Être à l’Ouest, Democratic Books Edition, Paris. Exhibitions at Mois de la photo à Paris, Centre atlantique de la photographie at Brest, and at galerie les Filles du Calvaire Paris.
2015 He directed his first short film “Des îles” and publication of Chiapas, insurrection dans le sud du Mexique, Photopoche, Actes Sud, Arles.
http://tendancefloue.net/matjacob/
