Photomachined

Jean Dubuffet's famous phrase comes up often enough for everyone to anyone interested in Art Brut has it in mind. Clear and uncompromising, This call for prospecting offers those who hear it clues to discover that which is close enough to oneself not to be considered and sufficiently far from the exhibition venues so as not to be seen. The incognito that we come across regularly found at flea markets and second-hand dealers can be found here in family photographs. In this untamable mass of memories doomed to oblivion, forms are discovered which are neither quite photographs nor quite objects. These little fetishes, charged with affect, were never intended to be exhibited. We call them photomachines. A Through patience and research, we have put together a collection ranging from simple cutting to more complex stagings where the photographs initials are then part of another story. Made from the At the end of the nineteenth century, these creations disappeared at the same time as the paper photography and the arrival of digital. By collecting these photomachined, we found similarities which, regardless of their geographical origin and their production period, end up constituting homogeneous sets: photorejected, photosurvived, photoredacted, photoframed, photoadored…