Cyrille Mulot

Cyrille Mulot is a fine art photographer based in Caen, France, though his artistic journey is deeply infused with the memories of his youth in Morocco. In his adopted Normandy, he has exchanged the blue skies of his childhood for the more contrasted heavens cherished by the Romantics.

His main artistic practice lies in the creation of portraits, a field in which he excels. Often, Cyrille stages romantic characters to conceive a dark and aesthetic universe that fuses history and mythology. Each portrait is envisioned as a scene suspended between realism and invention, where the face becomes a mask, a trace, an enigma.

He seeks out the imperceptible flaw and the realistic lighting that lend his portraits a subtle sense of decadence, a melancholia that recalls the worlds of circus and cabaret. By sculpting light and texture, the artist highlights the fragile beauty of human beings and his obsession with the passage of time.

Cyrille prefers to work alone on his projects, conceptualizing and producing each composition himself. His artistic approach rests on the confrontation between the immediacy of digital photography and a meticulous, handcrafted process to build his subjects.

In addition to his portraits, he also creates landsca...

Self-Taught

Le cirque des romantiques - Galerie des Croisiers, Caen - July 18 to 24, 2024
Le cirque des romantiques - Galerie des Croisiers, Caen - November 23 to 29, 2023
Le cirque des romantiques - Le Clos-Saint-Martin, Caen - May 5 to may 26, 2023
Le cirque des romantiques - La P’tite Galerie, Honfleur - May 27 to June 9, 2022
Le cirque des romantiques - Galerie des Croisiers, Caen - March 17 to 30, 2022
Regard dans le jardin étrange du romantisme - Galerie des Croisiers, Caen - July 16 to 28, 2021
Exposition Viva Cuba - Foire internationale de Caen - September 18 to 27, 2020