Sponte Sua
“Serge Picard’s portraits shudder with a very special life. They reflect, indeed, all the ambiguity of the genre: the “movement” that characterizes them, reintegrates all the presence of the photographed subject. It disturbs the relative peace that emanates from this non-aggressive, slightly suspicious face-to-face. The disturbance that emanates from it could correspond to an evasion, an escape from the subject. It may also correspond to the uncertainty of any photographer as to his or her ability to capture the reality that is slipping away. The portrait would then be an attempt to capture a subject always in motion, even fully consenting, because the life in us knows no rest, that we are always other than what we were a minute before. Isn’t the vocation of photography precisely to fix the ephemeral? If photography always shows only what is no longer, what has passed, Serge Picard’s portraits even fix the passage; imperceptible even for us, from ourselves to another ourselves, what we were and what we are in the process of no longer being, forever. ”
Nathalie Luyer, Vis à Vis International
DETAILS
18 black and white framed prints
15 frames 40 x 60 cm and 3 frames 60 x 80 cm
contact
Patricia MORVAN
Responsable de projets culturels
et des expositions
morvan@abvent.fr
+33 1 53 01 85 89
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Hôtel Paul Delaroche
58 rue Saint Lazare, 75009 Paris
+33 1 53 01 85 85
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