Blackout (2013).
Succinct and spontaneous stagings in order to find an absurd and senseless connection between a model, a place and an accessory.
The depersonalized model becomes a sculptural body. Set up in the middle of a scene, he or she becomes the meaning of a conceptual story.
Blackout as a loss of memory, it becomes a riddle. This series is like the reconstitution of a crime scene with for only clue the elements in this image.
What happened? What can we understand? Is all of this rational?…
Anyone can have a personal answer, according to his/her own life and knowledge.
Thereby, the making and the understanding of the image becomes something very personal. With this free interpretation, each reading can be different, depending on what was going on before and after the photographic act.
Photographic act like a flash, a flash like the only thing you can remember from the past.
Mathieu Roquigny entreprend une démarche où hasard, quotidien et humour entrent en interaction. Le jeu, le détournement d’objets mais surtout l’instinct de collectionneur sont des constantes de son travail qui se construit à travers l’ordinaire. L’usage d’un vocabulaire formel minimal et de matériaux modestes confère à ses œuvres une apparente simplicité qui ne fait que renforcer leur redoutable efficacité.
Blackout (2013).
Succinct and spontaneous stagings in order to find an absurd and senseless connection between a model, a place and an accessory.
The depersonalized model becomes a sculptural body. Set up in the middle of a scene, he or she becomes the meaning of a conceptual story.
Blackout as a loss of memory, it becomes a riddle. This series is like the reconstitution of a crime scene with for only clue the elements in this image.
What happened? What can we understand? Is all of this rational?…
Anyone can have a personal answer, according to his/her own life and knowledge.
Thereby, the making and the understanding of the image becomes something very personal. With this free interpretation, each reading can be different, depending on what was going on before and after the photographic act.
Photographic act like a flash, a flash like the only thing you can remember from the past.
Mathieu Roquigny entreprend une démarche où hasard, quotidien et humour entrent en interaction. Le jeu, le détournement d’objets mais surtout l’instinct de collectionneur sont des constantes de son travail qui se construit à travers l’ordinaire. L’usage d’un vocabulaire formel minimal et de matériaux modestes confère à ses œuvres une apparente simplicité qui ne fait que renforcer leur redoutable efficacité.
