Bertrand Gruyer
Photographs

"Presences"

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I am a viewer.
I take tens of thousands of photographs — a hunter-gatherer of images.

 

I immerse myself in forms produced by chance, encountered in everyday life, and turn them into images that carry a pictorial force.

 

No photograph is ever retouched. Everything happens in the framing — in the act of looking that makes the work.

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My path to photography comes from a deep love of painting.

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I am not looking for a motif, but for a pictorial presence — as Gilles Deleuze describes it: a force inherent in pictorial works that asserts itself before interpretation begins.

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My challenge is simple: to elevate insignificant details to the status of artworks. To bring them into our sensory world. To open a passage — a spark — between reality and imagination.

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My work exists at the intersection of two phenomena: the constant emergence of expressive forms without intention, and the projective capacity through which our mind continually reinvents what it sees.

 

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