Name: Ensemble Seul - Éric Antoine
Brand: Hemeria
SKU: ES-EA
Price: 65.00 EUR
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Ensemble Seul – Éric Antoine

65.00€

Ensemble Seul staged the series of photographs carried out by Éric Antoine2010 to 2015, in the bucolic space of his country house, where he took refuge after the disappearance of his companion.

Book-Homage to the loved one, it gives to see what remains despite the absence, the flight of time and an artistic and existential quest of simplicity and counting.

Preface by Hélène Conesa, curator at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in charge of the collection of contemporary photography, accompanied by a text by Vanessa Schmitz Grucker, author and journalist.

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“How to talk about someone when they no longer exist. That’s where my images really started to feel the absence”.

Ensemble Seul gathers the photographs made by Éric Antoine for five years behind closed doors. The artisan of light, he creates his own chemical emulsions to reveal what is no longer and to make his memories of photographic apparitions. He uses the wet collodion process to create his images, made on glass plates. “I try to make photographs that are enigmatic, that belong to no time, to no place” He chose this ancient process for its materiality and finesse, and the time-consuming aspect of this approach, which, as he points out, saved his life somewhat.

Eric Antoine’s photographs plunge us into a poetic universe in black and white, where objects mingle with faces, faces with plants, plants with touch. All our senses are awake, we become this wild animal, in the forest, always watching…

Ensemble Seul restores the powers and brightness of the silver tinted with ambrotypes, and admirably respects the spirit of the collection of Eric Antoine’s works, as an extension of his work.