GEOGRAPHIE VARIABLE - VARIABLE GEOGRAPHY

The VARIABLE GEOGRAPHY series, my most recent project, that I have started in 2021, is an invitation to travel inside imaginary spaces. Graphy is a suffix from the ancient Greek "graphos" that means writing, engraving and Geo refers to the land, to the territory. To rewrite the land through photo manipulations offers to me the possibility to create multiple variations about the same object. From a selection of photographs that I have taken along the riverbank of the Saint-Lawrence estuary since a decade and using photo manipulation, I rewrite the space of those pictures in combining them to create new dimensions and I open the door for a more symbolic approach. Essentially, it is a work on space, on the physical space of the frame, its fragmentation and its re-composition but it also a work on imaginary spaces, aiming to add a new poetical or symbolic dimension to those images. I grew up in the middle of vast spaces and the quest of those spaces is the landmark of my photographic journey. Paradoxically, it is using close-up photographs of bi-dimensional or in relief subjects into my compositions that I reach to create my own vision of those spaces.