Photography
Many of Frédérique Bretin’s photographs question our desire for the horizon. How can we reach this distance that slips away with every step forward? By adopting a position of waiting, there is a secret hope in each image that it will be the distance that comes to us. In this way, Frédérique Bretin’s poetry sensitively and empirically overturns the spatial system dictated by photography: while we conceive of it as an open window and a trajectory towards the horizon, her images are, on the contrary, the experience of a reversal of this perspective. Nothing better than the wave that so fascinates the artist conveys this aesthetic of a space that comes to you, like the very path of light that passes through the lens and diffracts on the sensitive surface.
Résonances, 20 x 25 cm, 96 pages, approximately 50 color and black-and-white reproductions, paperback binding + red dust jacket
Graphic design: L’atelier d’édition
«L’artiste a découvert de façon intuitive dans la ligne d’horizon – ce qui marque une limite et suggère un infini, ce qui est donc une pure contradiction entre la fonction et l’évocation – la puissance d’un oxymoron visuel dont elle fait l’instrument poétique de son univers.»
Michel Poivert
