Bertrand Gruyer
Photographs

The hidden face of chance

Manifesto

 

​I photograph what we don't look at.

Shapes born of chance, encountered at the bend of a floor, a wall, a reflection. Nothing is retouched or reworked: everything is captured as it is at the time of the shot. My eye composes, my gaze reveals.

 

What am I looking for? That fragile moment when reality detaches itself, when ordinary forms become autonomous. I am interested in the invisible, omnipresent at the heart of the visible, in those hidden paintings that reality doesn't know it's tracing.

For it is a love of painting that gave me the need to take photographs, abstract painting that has impressed my retina since childhood.

I stand at the intersection of two mysteries: that of a beauty born without intention and that of our gaze, which, at every moment, reinvents what it sees.

 

Each photograph is like an enigma, an image that exists only for itself. I don't reveal the subjects I photograph because once framed, reality is no longer reality; it becomes language, fiction, and remains open to all interpretations.

 

What if the hidden side of chance didn't resemble chance but a world where nothing exists without intention?