Teens (Limited edition 4 of 7) Photograph

Teens from the series "Temps d'arrêt / Down time" Three girls are waiting for the tram after school. They have so much to talk about. Etienne Buyse takes pictures of everyday life, of things that go unnoticed, of things that do not matter: of what happens when nothing happens, except for time, people, trains, buses and clouds. The real world? Where fear, chaos or boredom reign. To enchant the real, Buyse tries to put it in a box with a glass panel in front of it. His project is also to exhaust a theme, to show everything about a place, to explore its banality so as to unearth the richness of emptiness. A bit like Georges Perec did in An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris. Buyse explains: The infinite variety of lights, colors and beings that loom behind this glass, on this bench, within this corner panel and its interstices ... all this, in this cage of ten square meters, seen from my own bench where I wait alone, fascinates me, appeases me and brings me joy. A reflection of Flaubert’s somehow drives his work: Anything becomes interesting if you look at it for long enough.