Index Pétrel

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Photography

Aurélie Pétrel

Aurélie Pétrel’s photographic practice questions the status of the image, its use and the mechanisms of its production. Anchored in the long term, her research aims to bring shooting back to the center of multisensory reflection using spatial devices. Aurélie Pétrel poses the question of the mutation-mutability of an image, its potential for fractaliz(...)

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Aurélie Pétrel’s photographic practice questions the status of the image, its use and the mechanisms of its production. Anchored in the long term, her research aims to bring shooting back to the center of multisensory reflection using spatial devices. Aurélie Pétrel poses the question of the mutation-mutability of an image, its potential for fractalization, not only in itself but also in what it can cause as a disturbance in her experience of pluriperception. For her, a shot generates a multitude of shots from different points of view. Time and space are constantly superimposed, while they continue to disintegrate. The moving image is redistributed and its subsequent metamorphoses thus outweigh its consensual absorption, its one and definitive perception, its decisive moment and position. Implementing the formal tools and intellectual processes of both artists and researchers, Pétrel combines a visual and conceptual approach in a programmatic series of situations, where the exhibition format replays each time differently, the interpretative dimension of any score, any photograph in latency, any form waiting for metamorphosis. Her work is part of the collection of the Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne (CH); of the Centre National d’Art Moderne (MNAM)–Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), of the FRAC Normandie Rouen and of the FRAC Occitanie Montpellier…

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Index Pétrel, 17 x 24 cm, 224 pages, about 160 reproductions in four-colour, paperback. French text.
Graphic design : L’Atelier d’édition.

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