Bertrand Gruyer
Photographs

The hidden face of chance

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​I photograph what we don't look at. Shapes born of chance, encountered at the bend of a floor, a wall, a reflection. 

 My eye is alert, it hunts, it finds, it composes. The photos are never retouched: the framing is everything.

 

I don't seek a motif but a pictorial presence, in the sense that Gilles Deleuze evokes it: a force inherent to pictorial fact that imposes itself upon us before any interpretation.

 

Each photo functions as an autonomous image where the subject is no longer the subject, where reality becomes fiction, language, projection.

 

It is the love of painting that led me to photography, abstract painting that has impressed my retina since childhood.

 

My work lies at the intersection of two phenomena: the emergence of unintentional expressive forms and the capacity of our brain to constantly reinvent what it sees.

 

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