Back in 1888, Kodak’s famous slogan read: ‘Press the button, we do the rest’. Driven by industry, the camera was very early on presented to our ancestors as this miraculous machine to which they could give themselves over. It was at a time when photography was entering its digital era that the Franco-Swiss artist Mathieu Bernard-Reymond (1976) entered photography, in the early 2000s. The computer and its so-called ‘image processing’ software take their place in the chain of formation of the photographic image, opening the way to its alterations, subverting the reign of reality. How, we asked ourselves, can the artist create and narrate the world, his world, in the company of this increasingly talkative technology? How can they still do so, now that the technology is intelligent? Far from sidestepping the question, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond has never stopped conversing with digital tools to develop his own minor language.

The exhibition ‘ A Genuine Feeling ’ focuses on the last seven years of the artist’s creative output, with a particular emphasis on series that are closely linked to narrative. From snippets of personal memories to the syncopated literature of Ramuz, words call forth images, which the artist allows to decant in her algorithmic crucible. Shots, artificially generated images and collected images are all mixed together. Instead of aiming for the perfection promised by a meticulous handling of these digital tools, he prefers to explore their flaws, so as to immerse a little of the trembling of our human destinies in this world of images full of assurance and empty of experience.

The exhibition is supported by the