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La Table
2003
Carole Fékété
Photography
210 x 176 cm
The image of this table, very nearly life size, is at once both real and monumental. Taken from above, the view is akin to an aerial view while begging questions of weight and gravity. The subject's oval is centred, breaks conventions of perspective and allows one to access a more abstract representation.
As in the earlier series on cloths and fish, the willingness to lay the subject out flat is a response to the two-dimensional aspect of the medium, and seems to envelope the subject in the material of the photograph. Because the elements of the image are all wooden and organised geometrically, the flattening effect presents a form that hints at marquetry and also evokes the concept of motif. The simplification of the form projects a reading onto the represented object not unlike that of a sign, a coat of arms or perhaps an emblem.
As in the earlier series on cloths and fish, the willingness to lay the subject out flat is a response to the two-dimensional aspect of the medium, and seems to envelope the subject in the material of the photograph. Because the elements of the image are all wooden and organised geometrically, the flattening effect presents a form that hints at marquetry and also evokes the concept of motif. The simplification of the form projects a reading onto the represented object not unlike that of a sign, a coat of arms or perhaps an emblem.
Carole Fékété
France
Born in 1970
French artist born in Algiers in 1970.
Lives and works in Paris.
Winner of the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie in 2000, resident at Casa Velázquez between 2005 and 2007, recipient of commissions from the CNAP, exhibitions of her work are shown in France and around the world. Her works are displayed in the collections of FNAC, the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie, and in private collections.
Carole Fékété's photographs often present objects stripped of their context and environment. The subject, out of spatial-temporal place, becomes deterritorialised. It exists only in and of itself. In colour or black-and-white, miniature or monumental format, her vision expands upon time and minute observations, revealing the cultural and anthropological charge in her subjects whose uniqueness determines the form of representation.
Lives and works in Paris.
Winner of the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie in 2000, resident at Casa Velázquez between 2005 and 2007, recipient of commissions from the CNAP, exhibitions of her work are shown in France and around the world. Her works are displayed in the collections of FNAC, the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie, and in private collections.
Carole Fékété's photographs often present objects stripped of their context and environment. The subject, out of spatial-temporal place, becomes deterritorialised. It exists only in and of itself. In colour or black-and-white, miniature or monumental format, her vision expands upon time and minute observations, revealing the cultural and anthropological charge in her subjects whose uniqueness determines the form of representation.
Artwork of
Carole Fékété
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