beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

Les perspectives dépravées (Depraved Perspectives), whose title is borrowed from art historian Jurgis Baltrusaitis, is the name of a photographic series by artist Sabine Meier. This photographic work is accompanied by a set of constructions depicting implausible spaces, although they appear mathematically coherent in the images.

In each photograph, a detail conflicts with the apparent logic of the space represented and reveals its aberration. During exhibitions, the constructions are shown alongside the photographs as sculptures. Each construction is the material realization of an aberrant geometric hypothesis. We move constantly from concept to its embodiment, following a method that is part empirical experimentation and part mathematical postulate.

The book is presented as a workbook. It includes facsimiles of some of the pages from the notebooks that accompany the artist as she conceives her works. Preparatory drawings, notes and various reflections, reproductions of images and sources of inspiration immerse the reader in the slow creative process required by Sabine Meier to design and prepare her photographic works. The creation of a single image can take several months… Reproductions of the finished works also punctuate this veritable artist’s book.

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