Birds with outstretched wings by day, trees that shoot up to the sky at night and stars that bloom in astonishing shades... With the
Dreams
exhibition , photographer Jérôme Dubuis casts his gaze in black and white on nature until May 22, at the Maison des Arts et de la Culture Villa Médicis in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne), in the Paris suburbs.
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In his city, the one where he lives on the banks of the Marne, Jérôme Dubuis exhibits thirty-six pictures taken from three years of work.
An inexhaustible walker, the photographer casts his eye over his surroundings with a benevolent and aesthetic curiosity.
His words are surprisingly simple when he evokes the common thread that led him to exhibit:
"I leave my house, then I turn right, along the river... While ironing my photos, I since nature took a very large place there.
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Inexhaustible models
Just authentic, the photographer lets everything come: the fauna and flora are inexhaustible models in the green setting of the banks of the Marne.
The herons resting on a branch or hovering over the water, the branches of the trees bristling in a skilful tangle… Everything imposes itself naturally on his lens.
The Dreams
exhibition
was born at the Galerie Rastoll, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, at the beginning of 2022. Remarkable and noticed, it now finds an extension in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, in a building dedicated to biodiversity.
In the production of Jérome Dubuis, François Rastoll, read more than a simple dose of authenticity.
She reminded him of the pictures of Michael Ackerman, wandering photographer, protagonist of “trouble photography”, this style born in the sixties which forces our brain to see what the eye cannot distinguish.
The gallery owner, also a photographer, fell in love with the stories told by Dubuis.
“A coherent artist's approach.
Jérôme works in black and white, day and night,
notes Rastoll
.
I recognized in his photos a part of my nocturnal wanderings
.
Poetry and lyrical abstraction guaranteed.
Dreams,
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (94), until May 22, 2022.
