© Eric Bourret, courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
Expositions du 15/6/2015 au 18/7/2015 Terminé
Galerie Esther Woerdehoff 36 rue Falguière 75015 Paris France
Eric Bourret is an “artist walker”. His work has been influenced by English land artists and landscape photographers. Since the start of the 1990s, he has been travelling the world on foot, over every kind of terrain and at every altitude, making images he sees as “experiences of walking, experiences of the visible”.Galerie Esther Woerdehoff 36 rue Falguière 75015 Paris France
© Eric Bourret - Ladakh Himalaya 2011
Bourret’s expeditions can last for anything from a week to several months. But he always applies the same protocol. He superimposes a number of views of each scene so that the geological and human time scales merge. With the multiple reiterations of the initial image, a part of it disintegrates on the surface of the film before taking concrete form. The final result represents a summation of different memories into a “temporal layering” that is vibrant, oscillatory, almost animated.
© Eric Bourret - Lure France 2010
The practice of “walking photography” can also take the measure of a landscape, and of walking itself, in sequences of images that are more factual, with the insertion of dates and places, distances and durations. These images can be seen as aesthetic attestations, or as unusual, sensorial complexes of rhythmic qualities. At the same time, they comprise a distinctive repository of subjective experience. As Bourret himself says: “I’m made up of the landscapes I traverse, and which also traverse me. I see photographic images as receptacles of form, energy and sense.”
© Eric Bourret Lure France 2010
