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I am a French technical artist, maker of dreamlike, surreal and poetic images. Mixing techniques, old photographic archives and modern digital tools. My themes are the multiple times of our history via associations of ideas and memories. • • • And to find out more The french image maker Frederic Jacquet was born in Vienne, France in 1967. Begining with drawing and painting, he quickly moved to large format photography, used as a tool to produce illustrations on literary themes or allegoric surrealistic strange pictures. Beside his personnal research, he starts an advertising photographer and filmmaker career in 1991, and collaborates with various companies, magazines and publishers, mostly in Paris, Tokyo and New-York. He is now living and working in an old silk factory in the Ardèche, south-east of France, where he can feed his interest for industrial mechanics from the past and various collections of heterogeneous objects. The beautiful nature all around is also a main source of inspiration. Books from the french romantic period, Isidore Ducasse, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Alfred Jarry, Edgard Allan Poe, Rachilde, continue to fascinate him... as well as the exploration of human psyche, poetry, the philosophy of Gaston Bachelard, Vladimir Jankélévitch, or Montaigne. His iconography being typically surreal, pataphysical with a touch of sensuality, perceived by each of us very personally, stays usualy untitled and unexplained. His motivation is a kind of reverie or a wandering into the unreal and the imaginary. By definition without apparent meaning and therefore difficult to describe in words. As in dreams, his ideas follow a process of improbable associations, on a bright or dark side. But never too serious and mostly phantasmatic. These more recent images created using “artificial intelligence” are exploring the result of a mix of his passion of vegetal, landscape, architecture and feminine beauty. It's a poetical divigation between onirism and dream. If we had to summarize the motivations and genesis of his images, it would be a question of illustrating or documenting an imaginary world outside of time, mixing styles without constraints or rules, from art nouveau to absurd and poetic grotesque with a touch of futurism! His images are a window through which we escape from present time.