In the tradition of the Bechers, Patrick Tournebœuf explores urban space without varying his visual approach: he always uses a view camera and frontal perspective…
Like an entomologist, he observes harbor landscapes through a magnifying glass. This series defines from the outset what the photographic act does: a chunk of space/time detached from its context and imprinted on a photosensitive plate. The real and its double: imagination. The series “Lunaire” is constructed on the basis of such duality, intending to subvert representation. It goes against what is visible and evokes the element of mystery. The photographed structures change function: they are no longer installations supporting maritime trade, but strange vessels that traverse time, immobile and majestic. Patrick Tournebœuf sets his tripod at the boundary of the tangible, and constructs a universe that grazes your dreams. With humor, he transports us into the heart of the planet.
Patrick Tournebœuf
He was born in 1966 in Paris.
The work of Patrick Tourneboeuf explores the identity of places. Blending urban environment, architecture, and landscapes, he creates a mindscape and fashions a conception of space in which aesthetics dialogs with geography and the societal. His way of constructing the image compels us to rethink the ambiguous relationship between the real and its representation
1991 Creation of Tendance Floue.
1999 Photographic Mission site Grand Palais (EMOC/Ministry of Culture)
2003 Publication of Périphérique, Atlantica Editions, Biarritz.
2004 Exhibition of « La Cicatrice » in part of Month of Photography in Paris.
Publication of « La Cicatrice », éditions du Huitième Jour, Paris.
2006 Publication of Temps suspendu, Filigranes, Trézélan.
Exhibition of Temps suspendu at Archives nationales in Paris.
2008 Publication of Huis Clos, Images en Manœuvres, Marseille
2010 Publication of Monumental, Librairie de la Galerie and Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris.
2012 « Trace »Photographic Mission in Kimberley (South Africa) and Workshop Market in Johanesburg.
2014 « Stèles », monuments aux morts, this series is exhibited at hôtel de ville de Paris, musée Albert Kahn Boulogne, musée de l’Arsenal Soissons and l’Éléphant Paname in Paris.
