The photography of Jean-Vincent Simonet(France, 1991) deconstructs the idea that digital printing processes prevent gesture and interpretation. Familiar with machines – thanks to his family’s printing business – he has become something of a printer’s tuner, twisting the standard operating procedure to bring the mechanics into tune with his work, which takes the form of a psychedelic symphony.

A materialist photographer, he likes to saturate the surface of his images with textures and colours, until the eye, in visual apnoea, finds its way into the whirlpool. His subject seems to devour the frame, to eat away at the surface of the paper; its contours often seem to be diluted in effects whose origin we can’t immediately guess. In this quest for matter, the flower has become a recurring motif in the artist’s compositions. It lends its organic and fleeting character to the artist’s chromatic and surface work: the stems and their plumes mingle their designs with those left by these elusive inks, the blossoming corollas with a light that irradiates everything.

A graduate of the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, Jean-Vincent Simonet (1991) is based in Paris, where he combines commercial photography, editorial work and personal explorations. In 2022, he took part in Paris Photo in the Curiosa sector with the project Heirloom and in 2023 at the Salon a ppr oc he.

This talk is part of the Écoute l’artiste series organised by the Réseau arts visuels Rouen métropole. Lasting between an hour and an hour and a half, they are introduced and moderated by Tania Vladova, Professor of Aesthetics at ESADHaR – Rouen. They are free and take place in the auditorium of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, 26 bis, rue Jean Lecanuet 76000 Rouen.

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