Frédéric Bourret
Self-taught French photographer, Frédéric Bourret first trained in New York, where for five years he familiarizes himself with frames, reflects and symmetries. From this step stands out an impressive black and white series, soberly named “New York”. A collection that, through shimmering and geometry, reminds the traditional imagery of the city Friedlander or still Kertész gave us, while unusually instilling into it a quietness and a peace. Then comes “A Découvert”, a nudes gallery, also black and white, which allows the artist an intimist, sensitive, sweet look. Images showing the care of the composition, the shot, but also of the pictured object that appears respected and sublimated without any artifice or travesty.
Last stone to his building, the series “Behind Waiting” changes his approach, classical and ancestral until here, to cast with a personal look the contemporary world. Picturing with reversal colors bus stops and waiting scenes, common in every megalopolis, Frédéric Bourret establishes an almost medical diagnosis. The radiography of a gangrenous citizenship where the beings, the film reveals, look like organs besieged by the metastasis of a saturated environment. Dissimulation of the faces and blinding shades systematically highlighting the signs of culture, affiliation, emphasize the acknowledgment of an individual suffocation by the informative overload. As any tag, banner, brand, poster, sign is akin to our back stand, our “apersonalization”. And to complete or confirm this Pop Art painting, the pictures come from Paris as well as Bucharest, Tokyo or Valencia.
This short panel of series and looks shows both the creativity and the artistic background of Frédéric Bourret. A young, and thus promising, photographer you can also discover through three books. All the needed informations are available on his website.
Behind Waiting
New York
A Découvert
