Vincent Bousserez
Vincent Bousserez creates poetic images that play with scale, from miniature scenes in daily life to vast Arctic landscapes. His work explores the fragile balance between human ambition, nature, and time.
Vincent Bousserez
Vincent Bousserez creates poetic images that play with scale, from miniature scenes in daily life to vast Arctic landscapes. His work explores the fragile balance between human ambition, nature, and time.
Vincent Bousserez compose des images poétiques mêlant jeux d’échelle et vastes paysages nordiques. Son œuvre interroge le fragile équilibre entre l’ambition humaine, la nature et le temps.
Biography
Biographie
In his photography over the last 20 years, Vincent Bousserez has explored both the untouched vastness of our planet and the interplay of scale and perspective, reminding us that "we are infinitesimally small on the scale of the Universe, a mere snap of the fingers on the scale of Time, and we often forget this". A self-taught artist inspired by Gilbert Garcin's surrealism and Ron Mueck's hyper-realistic beings of strange dimensions, Vincent made a name for himself by initiating a veritable photographic movement now used by many photographers around the world: in his Plastic Life series, he creates settings of small human figurines placed at the heart of our daily lives, delicately combining humour and social criticism. The artist soon left his studio to go and lose himself and his viewers in the remote regions of the Far North. The geography of these isolated places creates opportunities for him to play with scale and disconcerting perspectives, indirectly reminding us of the current human condition: the more we grow, and the more we expand, the more it costs the world around us. Vincent Bousserez breaks with scale and creates a strange testimony to the virgin territories of our planet, paying homage to nature and the fragile world around us. His work explores the relationships and tensions between exploration, expansion, isolation and destruction.
Dans sa pratique de la Photographie qui s’étend depuis 20 ans, Vincent Bousserez explore autant les immensités vierges de notre planète que les jeux d’échelles et de perspectives, pour nous rappeler ceci : “Nous sommes infiniment petits à l’échelle de l’Univers, un simple claquement de doigts à l’échelle du Temps, et nous l’oublions bien souvent.” L’artiste sort de son studio pour aller se perdre et perdre ses spectateurs dans les contrées lointaines du grand Nord. Les géographies de ces lieux isolés créent en lui des opportunités de jeux d’échelle et de perspectives déroutantes, rappelant indirectement la condition humaine actuelle : plus nous grandissons, et plus nous nous étendons, plus cela coûte cher au monde qui nous entoure. Son travail explore les relations et les tensions entre l’exploration, l’expansion, l’isolement et la destruction.
