About the artwork
This photograph shows a succession of gaping holes in a collapsed wall, creating a striking perspective effect. The composition depicts a dilapidated space where destroyed structures (broken concrete, exposed bricks, metal pipes) form successive frames, drawing the eye to a final hole at the bottom of the image. The image is part of Mathieu Pernot's Window Series, a photographic series in which the artist captures openings in enclosed spaces, often ruined or abandoned. In this way, the photograph plays on the notion of threshold, passage and confinement, while at the same time hinting at a possible escape. Through this framing structured by destruction, Mathieu Pernot highlights the memory of places and the lives linked to them.
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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