Faux Semblants

“Faux-Semblants” is a work on the photographic medium, the relationship to space and time.

Photography only offers a truncated image of the reality of space, delimited by the sensor surface of the camera or the sensitive surface of the film. Photography is therefore not an objective image of reality but a subjective vision proposed by the photographer.

The idea is therefore to recreate a large space, through the juxtaposition and multiplication of these fragments of “landscapes”. However, the image proposed is not a reflection of reality but the sum of the subjectivities of each fragment.

“Faux-Semblants” is also a work on the medium’s relationship to time. Exit the photographic snapshot, the image is here constructed over a long time and represents a sum of different moments.

“Faux-Semblants” is therefore in a way a challenge to the concepts of “truth photography” and the “decisive moment”.The reconstructed image, deliberately suggestive, allows us to take an ironic look at the shortcomings of our existence.

Initially, the images were sized for a 5x4m box with images of the following size:

The garden: 300×200 cm

The neighbors: 180×120 cm

Traffic jam: 60×400 cm

Lunch on the grass: 63×300 cm

State of emergency: 282×212 cm

It’s high time to light up the stars again: 500×400 cm

The first part of the project has been completed and was exhibited in Aix en Provence in 2018. It is an installation which is presented in the form of a 4mx2.5m box in which the large prints are arranged, allowing the viewer to immerse in the images while maintaining a feeling of confinement in correlation with the images offered.

The images of this “box” are:

Le jardin : 300×200 cm cut in two parts

Les voisins : 180×120 cm

L’embouteillage : 60×400 cm

Le déjeuner sur l’herbe : 63×300 cm

L’état d’urgence : 282×212 cm cut in two parts

Il est grand temps de rallumer les étoiles : 250×400 cm