Vivaces – Bertrand Hugues

As part of the Brussels Photo Festival, Galerie Eric Mouchet is pleased to present new photographs by Bertrand Hugues alongside the exhibition by Eikoh Hosoe.
 
Bertrand Hugues is an artist who employs photography, at a specific moment in his work, not as an end in itself but as a means, among others, to investigate through a series of acts what it means to see. Thwarting the laws of Nature, the artist also plays with those of photography. Thus, starting with the Hybrids he created, what he accomplishes in his studio dark room methodically cripples our common ways of seeing. It could stop there, but the relation of the experience would not be complete for this inventor of forms, if he didn’t indulge himself in one last practice, exercised in an intentionally indirect way. This last act was the transition of the Ektachromes in his studio into prints, given to the Atelier Fresson, heir of the carbon printing process to which it gave its name, invented at the end of the 19th century. The aesthetic effect brought about by the colors of this process bring to mind the first Autochrome photographs, thereby imposing a kind of distance. It’s as if, between the hybrid being created by Hugues and those who observe it, a temporal veil has intervened.
 
Pierre Wat, Seconde Nature. Jacques Blin & Bertrand Hugues , exhibition catalog Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris, 2020.
 
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// Vivaces (16/01-22/03/2025 | Brussels, Belgium)