Mathieu Pernot

Born in Fréjus in 1970, Mathieu Pernot lives and works in Paris. After studying art history at the University of Grenoble, he entered the National School of Photography in Arles, graduating in 1996. His work is rooted in documentary photography, but he diverts from its protocols in order to explore alternative formulas and construct a multi-voiced narrative. The artist proceeds either by creating series - sometimes resonating with each other through characters, chronologies or themes - or by encountering archival images. In all cases, this nomadism of images and subjects underscores his desire to avoid a one-way narrative of history. The perpetual displacement of his images evokes a reality that is far from fixed or unchanging. He has exhibited at a number of venues, including the MAPFRE Foundation in Madrid in 2023, the MUCEM in Marseille in 2022 and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris.