HUMAN AFTER ALL
Hélène Petite & Yuna Mathieu-Chovet
From January 12th to February 23rd, 2025
Exhibition shots : credits Téo Becher
EXHIBITION CONCEPT
Hélène Petite’s photographic work experimentally explores modes of presentation and production of the image and its supports through projection and three-dimensional creation. She focuses on the potentially inexhaustible revelatory potential of images. Her meditative exploration of the mysteries of nature and its living interweavings reveals a fascination for what is born, what lives and what is always reborn.
Yuna Mathieu-Chovet questions the place of the artistic object, its nature and its representation. She likes to blur the boundaries between the work, its subject and its support. For her ‘Birth of shapes’ project, fascinated by the question of the birth of shapes, she compares and relates patterns created by nature (reflection phenomena, water movement, etc.) to forms created by and for humans, who have thus built up their own culture and defined their hierarchies, enabling them to separate ‘high’ from ‘low’ culture.
Hélène Petite and Yuna Mathieu-Chovet consider film photography as a material and are interested in its dual status as both material object and representation. There is no photography without an observer. However, both photographers, each in their own way, call for a photograph in which the human, the witness, is conspicuous by its absence, or at least seems to have dissolved into its object, into the very process, that of the nature it photographs, of the natural process at work, both testifying to a particular attraction for a world in which the human is no longer at the center, a world in which the human is human after all.
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