Metropolia - French version

Wandering in an imaginary city restored in fragments, Metropolonia invites the reader to a dreamlike stroll punctuated by enigmatic encounters. Urban space is apprehended in fragments, guessed through silhouettes that we come across there. Mists, exploded grains, sometimes saturated lights, nuances of gray, monochrome colors playing with cold blues or warm oranges, In Bogren's case, the visual experience becomes tangible. Where are we? In a city ​​populated by solitary presences, immersed in a city with facades that look like walls: it is about seeing beyond appearances, to go to the other side of the mirror, to lose one's footing to see better. Each image is a vision, captured as it seems to dissolve before our eyes: we distinguishes passages, architectures, the corridors of a metro station, in the distance an island bristling with buildings. Wandering is also made of encounters, of characters captured in the moment, like apparitions, sometimes with their eyes closed, locked in their inner world, often taken in close-up. Capturing intimacy, to say the fragile, to show the impermanence of things: the visual universe of Martin Bogren reveals the illusion of the world. His images capture on their surface a reality that eludes us but that the photographer's art has managed to capture in extremis, at the stolen. Life is a dream and all reality is only illusion, to resume Pedro Calderon, and diving into unreality remains a pleasure.