About the artwork
This photographer captures the destruction of a building in the midst of demolition. The image, taken at the precise moment of collapse, freezes the structure in motion, creating a visual distortion where the architecture seems to bend under the force of gravity. The cloud of dust at the foot of the building accentuates the sensation of chaos and imminent disappearance. With this work, Mathieu Pernot questions urban transformations and the memory of places. The implosion of a building represents not only the destruction of a building, but also the end of a collective life, a social history.
Expert opinion
This series is characteristic of Mathieu Pernot's aesthetic and committed approach, which questions the memory of places and the way in which history is inscribed in space.
About the artist
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.
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