Project: Marc-Antoine Garnier
Marc-Antoine Garnier
Through landscape images of vegetation, mountains and skies, my work explores the materiality of the image through various manipulations of photographs. By way of rolling, crumpling, cutting, punching, blurring and folding paper, I attempt to establish a dialogue between content and form. The project sets traps for the gaze, hollowing out details and playing with perspective. It’s an experience that engages the viewer’s entire body; photographs come out of the frame, detaching themselves from the wall into a space in which they evolve. It’s the displacement of the spectator that activates the entanglement of the image – in all its reliefs and volumes.
Marc-Antoine Garnier (b. 1989) is a French photographer and visual artist, who graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d’art et Design Le Havre-Rouen. In recent years, he has presented his works in numerous exhibitions. His pieces have been collected by the FRAC Normandie-Rouen, as well as several art libraries in France. Garnier’s research finds particular appreciation in Japan, where he exhibited at the Nishieda Foundation as part of the Nuit Blanche de Kyoto in 2017, and at the Tezukayama Gallery in 2016.