beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

By recomposing the image, Paul Pouvreau spreads the world out before our eyes, revealing its nature as a palimpsest, an accumulation of layers of meaning, materials, and stories. It takes infinite rigor and precision on the part of the photographer for meaning to flow between planes and objects, for the pillar to enter into dialogue with the pouch in the absence of any hierarchy, for the runner to stride over the bush, for the poppies to invade the real estate project, for confusion to reveal the hidden meaning of things. In terms of photography, we should talk about a surgical act, a gesture of opening and then suturing space, which brings together what was previously separate. (Julien Zerbone)

Three authors each take up a particular aspect of the work:

the poet Charles Pennequin,

the philosopher Antonia Birnbaum,

and the art historian Julien Zerbone.

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