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Simon P LAURENT
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Photography, film, for me it is like breathing, like a heartbeat. There are many ways to become emancipated, to distance oneself from reality with imagination. In fact, I do not think the purpose of art is to reproduce reality. When we see the world though a different lens, it helps us understanding the space we live in, and allows us see things from a different perspective.
As an artist, I try to explore the boundaries between painting, photography, and graphic design. Not unlike the ebb and flow of the sea, I oscillate between representations (but I try to go beyond, to create my own world with my own codes) and abstractions.
My strong desire to leave the beaten path associated with non format aesthetics leads me towards having a very experimental vision of photography and art.
First of all, I would like to say that flaws are part of the process and to my own aesthetic. Moreover, I would like to add that new technology has never been an ultimate aim. It is just a tool to achieve what has to be accomplished. Digital technology is here to investigate, it modifies our perception of things and our environment: Movies and photography (digital or film) can be reworked and enhanced. When I work, I become absorbed in the process of creating an augmented reality. Several of my pictures can be seen alternatively as paintings or photographs. Other images are shown without treatment; I can play with clear-cut representation.
The fruit of research, of a real exploration of territories, can be seen in some of my works, the result is an artifact of that technical process: a glitch.
Therefore, my work is not about autobiographical logic, although a few works do represent what I actually saw, I prefer to remember the things for myself. What really matters is what I feel, not necessarily, the way things happened. There is no distinction between my feelings and my art, refusing to see the world as it is, I try to create an altered state of reality.
There is a real mise en scene – en oeuvre – of the nature, of the environment, and barely nothing can come between evocation and suggestion, devoid of characters. I enjoy the challenge of creating emotions in this form; some of my works are often based on nothingness and can illustrate this word as void, an absence. The work is about loneliness; quite moments, shapes, volumes, illusions, and some of the abstractions are the sole projection of my subconscious.
At first sight, my works are reflective; however, like steps of life, in an evolving world, they are based on series of events and facts in which we can all relate. Most of us will be confronted with it one day or another. Dark, but also radiant, the works have a bittersweet taste. Serious subjects can be dealt with lightnes
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