Metanoia

It is precisely this state of change that is examined in its most spectacular detail. Thanks to photography, this space where movement reigns freezes and baffles us. What exactly do we see? Our mind seeks an explanation. Isn't it precisely change that frightens it the most? That moment when what we know escapes us, when the unknown reigns because the future is uncertain?

So when everything around us is in motion, when everything is changing, we need points of reference. Faced with these bewildering images, it's the titles we cling to. Latin names - from a language that is dead, but still very much alive in science - bring us back to what is known, catalogued. Flowers. Simple flowers that we can grow in our garden have been skilfully manipulated in front of the lens. The photographic process and the artist's eye did the rest. A very human and artisanal methodology at a time when robotization and artificial intelligence raise the spectre of a profound paradigm shift. Proof, if proof were needed, that humans hold the reins of change in their hands, at least on their own scale.

The Métanoïa series is the artist's latest project, created in his studio between 2024 and 2025.


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