The Captor, 2012
Bertrand Carrière has been working for many years on the construction of a photographic journal in several volumes, where the different aspects of his production are combined and collide. Eliminating the usual thematic barriers, this project creates a collection of visual markers, forcing improbable event-driven or temporal encounters between the images.
Using recurring motifs and signs, Bertrand Carrière constructs a territory, like an atlas, where the ordinary coexists with the unusual. The essence of his approach is based on what the present proposes to him, at any time and in any place. He works on the structure of the diary in order to explore the limits of private experience, to shape narratives.
His use with the soul of the amateur, of a small camera with a simple and non-intrusive design, allows him to give free expression to his intuitions. Automatic practice becomes here a working theory, an engagement with the visual and poetic potential of the day-to-day flow of things and their incessant transformations.
“Cut off from everything familiar, unable to see the slightest point of reference, he saw those steps that led him nowhere in himself. It was within him that he wandered, that he got lost. Far from worrying him, this lack of reference point became a source of happiness, of exaltation. He was imbued with it to the marrow. »
Paul Auster, The invention of solitude.
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