Matthieu Gafsou
Vivants
Interested in the place of man in living things, and also in the degradation of the world around us, Swiss photographer Matthieu Gafsou shows in this large format book, a composite narrative that combines landscapes, sometimes tinted with a strange color, reportage portraits in B&W, or even urban views reworked with crude oil.
A crepuscular atmosphere, a contaminated world as well as isolation, revolt, anger, yet also care are the thematic milestones which construct the dramaturgy of this narration.
The multi-sensory immersion in this visual corpus is enhanced with music created specifically for the book by Ripperton (via a QR code). As well as two texts: an essay by art historian Victoria Mühlig, which presents the different formal and aesthetic approaches to the series of Matthieu Gafsou, and a fiction by novelist Pierre Ducrozet, imagined specifically for this body of work.
Vivants
Matthieu Gafsou
Texts from Victoria Mühlig and Pierre Ducrozet
168 pages (72 colors and B&W photographs)
Editions Atelier EXB
