Alexandre Aldavert

A photographer for four years in a creative agency, he founded his own studio in 2015 and began exhibiting in France and abroad.

Wonder is at the heart of his artistic approach. In his studio, he initiates the creation of a collection of founding elements for the future work. Searching for them, preserving them or waiting for them to be transformed requires patience that can take several years. Outdoors, it’s a pilgrimage to the discovery of a favourable spot, the daily vigil of a tree or the advent of a season.
He creates each work with his hands, meticulously arranging it. With his gestures, he infuses emotions, harmonising details until that moment when the scene comes to life.
Night is his paradigm. The visceral experimentation of its stillness offers the artist a space conducive to the birth of his cosmogonies. The rare light becomes her visual narrative, a brushwork that offers a balanced, enduring ecosystem, serenely welcoming history.
Once the metamorphosis has taken place, he captures it through the photographic process.

His Résilience Résistance series, begun in 2017, now comprises eleven still lifes, each illustrating an idea: encounter, love, welcome, revolution, reverie, discovery, death, climate change, ambition, generosity and filiation.
The presentation of this series in 2022 marked a significant turning point in Alexandre Aldavert’s career. It was on this occasion that he was able to experiment with writing. Each work is accompanied by a story that gives the stage its own voice. The reading renders immaterial the sharing of the artist’s encounters with wonder.

Alexandre Aldavert’s aim is to bring photography and writing together, allowing them to appear, not side by side, but as an indissociable whole, a single work.