When I was twelve, I experienced dematerialization of my body during an acute appendicitis attack (NDE, near death experience). In 2001, I lived for one year in Mexico, with las Abejas community of Acteal, there I was introduced to mysticism by local people and peyote. Inevitably, these two experiences shaped my perception to feel the world.
As a young french born artist now I work on perception and consciousness through new narratives and focuses on the thin line between dream and reality. I, a lucid dreamer, doesn’t feel like a photographer : through I works with medium of photography, each picture is the result of a performance where I uses a torch. My thin beam of light not only focuses on details but goes beyong the surface, exciting the body’s cells and giving a new glimpse into reality. I use light not just as a tool or for aesthetical effect, but to explore the fine line between light and dark, flesh and soul, body and space, conscious and inconscious’ perception.
Filled with light, the body (Women Lightscape ‘s serie) or the plant (Dancing Leaves’ serie) vibrates and rolls out in a time I revised. Indeed, the exposure time often lasts several minutes to see the magic happen. By fragmentations and transparencies, the subject goes beyong the fugacious moment and leaves long-lasting trace. It’s not the question of any photographic moment, but it’s a way to explore an interval where we can rethink our existence, or our consciouness to be into the world.
Thank you for your interest.
Hervé