Still Life? - PBF04 / Baptiste Rabichon
15 November to 21 December 2019
Baptiste Rabichon plays with nature and chance to create poetic photographs from ancestral and modern methods of photography.
Baptiste Rabichon likes as much the ancestral methods of photography (photograms, cyanotypes, pinhole camera) as the tools of modern imagery, that he tries to push in their entrenchments.
The floral motifs that characterize the series 17ème are created from real flowers picked by the artist during his walks, sometimes mixed with scans, then projected into the photosensitive paper. It is undoubtedly the collision between control and accident that gives these works their peculiar chimerical appearance.
Body and objects are marked by a dichotomy between darkness and light, interior and exterior, which also translates two essential phases of his work.
