“[…} I travel, and everywhere I hold on to it, the Fantastic. This phosphorous giant is everywhere, this madman with a hundred faces streaming with tears is everywhere, sitting on the throne opaque of the real, and he lets himself be stared at, him, the most troubling discovery of men. That day, in the silence of the arenas of Las Ventas, he waited for me, amused, and invited me to contemplate anew the bullfight, ritual of total magic.
The bullfighter is a solitary magician, an absolute master of the spell, a red prodigy. He practices an infinitely complex magic, that weaves runes traced with the point of a ballet shoe in the lime and the blood, incantations cried to the dead, to the tantric dance of the muleta, the stick with the red cloth, to the incantations that the walls whisper, to the sacrifice of the beast with the sword. Well sometimes, as on that day, the spell takes shape, the arenas withdraw, leaving a hole in the World where the poetry of the wind rushes in to take advantage […].
[…] The bullfight is magic, the toromagic that lights up the face.
Dragging me to that day in the great circle of Las Ventas, I knew that I would never be the same. We will continue to overcome the mystery and I write my love for the bullfight. Go, bullfighter, advance again to the abyss and the wind, go, show me.”
Extract of L’Abyme et le vent.
Meyer
He was born in 1969 in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.
Meyer cultivates the conviction that the photographic act is not to observe the world but to construct it. Between fantasy and realism, his visions oppose the imaginary facing an evading reality. Influenced by the magic of a theatrical moment, Meyer wants to arouse a kind of enchantment by looking into the abyss.
1993-1997 He discovers the underground raves in France with « Lunacy ».
2002 Exhibition of « Palestine » at Maison européenne de la photographie à Paris. Special Award Paris Match.
2005 Exhibition of « Putain de Maïeutique » Camarguaise at Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles.
2006 « Mon Frère Lumière » is presented at Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles.
2007 3rd of World Press Photo (« Arts and entertainment ») with his series « Mon Frère Lumière ».
2010 « Portraits décalés »is presented at festival Head On in Australia.
2012 Residence Cobertura Photo at Madrid.
2014 Residence Territoires partagés at Forum du Blanc-Mesnil. Exhibition of « L’Abyme et le Vent » at Nîmes.
2015 Residence festival Planches Contact at Deauville
