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Chandigarth - Assemblée # 1
2007
Stéphane Couturier
Photography
100 x 130 cm
Neither celebrating nor condemning the urban world that surrounds us, the images of this French photographer move us to question our perception of our environment. Constantly investigating his subjects, their uses, and their destiny, the artist invites us to contemplate a new order of forms: a proliferation of signs, the juxtapositioning of perspectives, and the removal of any hierarchy between subjects transform this heterogenous world into a world of possibilities.
Stéphane Couturier sees the urban landscape as a work in progress, a building site that is forever being transformed, inexorably problematic. In so doing, he goes against one of the essential functions of photography: to freeze a moment of time, to anchor the transitory, to capture the ephemeral in a stable and secure image…
Stéphane Couturier sees the urban landscape as a work in progress, a building site that is forever being transformed, inexorably problematic. In so doing, he goes against one of the essential functions of photography: to freeze a moment of time, to anchor the transitory, to capture the ephemeral in a stable and secure image…
Stéphane Couturier
France
Born in 1957
French photographer.
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, France.
Without endorsing or deploring the urban environment we live in, these images are designed to challenge our perception. By questioning the presence of objects, their use and destiny, the artist invites us to take a fresh look at the order of things: the proliferation of signs, confrontation of plans, breaking down of the hierarchy of subjects and transforming the heterogeneity.
Stéphane Couturier conceives the urban fabric as work in progress – ever changing and inexorably problematic. In this way, he turns one of the basic functions of photography upside down – capturing the transitory and temporary in a stable and secure image.
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, France.
Without endorsing or deploring the urban environment we live in, these images are designed to challenge our perception. By questioning the presence of objects, their use and destiny, the artist invites us to take a fresh look at the order of things: the proliferation of signs, confrontation of plans, breaking down of the hierarchy of subjects and transforming the heterogeneity.
Stéphane Couturier conceives the urban fabric as work in progress – ever changing and inexorably problematic. In this way, he turns one of the basic functions of photography upside down – capturing the transitory and temporary in a stable and secure image.
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