Opening on Friday 19 July 2019 from 6 pm. Exhibition from July 16 to September 7, 2019.
Interview
Can you tell us what the ReCompA series is?
First of all, ReCompA stands for “Landscapes to be Recomposed”… Each of my photographic creations represents landscape moments captured, archived and then reworked.
A sum of architectural and environmental visuals is recomposed by a graphic fusion between several photographs, such as the first photoliars of the 30s.
How did you come to create this series of photographs?
I roamed the landscapes with the eye of a land prospector… equipped with my camera, my mind map of the terrains to consider… on the Alpine arc. As my daily journeys progressed, these places to build became sites to be recreated.
My prospections turned into photographic explorations… I have become through a subtle reconversion of the countries, cities and countryside I have crossed: Le RecomposeuR.
How do you work with your images?
I propose a journey to rediscover landscapes where urban and natural spaces, near and far environments collide.
Like a researcher in his laboratory, I manipulate, assemble, fuse digital molecules to find the right reaction… Thus landscape particles are revealed in a surreality.
The experience of form is elaborated by a fortuitous encounter with a place explored … the emotion of a sought-after memory… the dream of a rediscovered landscape.
The alchemy takes place and a new vision appears… Between reality and fiction, an infinite combination of possibilities is recomposed.
A word from the curator
Stéphane Stribick is disturbing in that he transgresses the laws of photography without even worrying about it. Through its superimposition of photographs, the fusion obtained heckles the eye and invites us to explore each composition more thoroughly. Some of them let us perceive a whole imaginary world, while others invite us to the crossroads of genres: Architecture and nature marry in a perfect cohesion of space. The subtleties obtained leave the observer a very large place for dreams and imagination. I invite you to dive into these recomposed images, you will come back transfixed.
Stéphan Lamielle
