Bertrand Hugues

“Bertrand Hugues (born in 1967) is an artist who uses photography not as an end in itself but as a means, contributing with others to an ongoing question about what it means to be able to see. By defying the laws of nature, the artist also plays with the principles of photography, not in order to make images but, on the contrary, to work against them. What he accomplishes in his studio, with his camera and the Hybrids he has created there, methodically undermines the common mechanisms of our”.
 
Pierre Wat, Seconde Nature. Jacques Blin & Bertrand Hugues , catalogue d’exposition Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris, 2020.
 
The view camera is at the root of Bertrand Hugues’ research into plants. His aim is to reveal what is not there, to show what is fragile, what tends to break. So he creates studies and compositions by modifying the axes of focus of the studio shots, giving them a singular perception. The use of this technique, combined with the purely silver process for black and white prints and the Fresson process for colour prints, ensures that there is no precipitation in the preparation and development of his photographic research.
 
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EXHIBITIONS:
// Solanum Baretiae (30/10/24-11/01/2025 | Paris)
// // Group show : Crozat, Hugues, Mougas, Rials, Vever, Voillat | Galerie Eric Mouchet Brussels (08/10-17/12/2022)
// Seconde Nature. Jacques Blin & Bertrand Hugues (11/12/20-23/01/2021)