"The starting point was a search for matches in Europe between the faces of the present and the faces of its past, its history, through the forms of painting and sculpture. Starting to work on this project, putting together the faces photographed today, my idea has been refined: the basic idea of approximation, parallelism of the faces of today and statues or paintings of yesterday was the thrust. These statues, I have long regarded, I am nourished, soaked. "
Gladys
"Before I could see colors in black and white and little by little with the editing work I got the idea to incorporate color photos to black and white, in the spirit of" Vowels "Rimbaud . One color photo just start a group of black and white images, sometimes in color and black and white are interspersed. The suites are not systematic, it is a slight variation and free, with talking images associations between them, depending on the direction they are side by side, as well as their emotional tone in color and feel that they recalls to me "
"These strange perspectives, the angles of shooting troubling, these games with the differences in scale, these shuttling between micro and macrocosm, all rich vocabulary that irrigates this work unique and endearing"
Armelle Canitrot, Pour Voir, in May 2000.
Armelle Canitrot, Pour Voir, in May 2000.
