Petit Jean

After almost twenty years spent on marketing, Petit Jean in his early forties gives in to photography and contemporary art.

To be honest, the odds for Petit Jean to finally turn to such an artistic and abstract pathway were quite low until he was instantaneously struck by this mesmerizing miracle of Mother Nature. Petit Jean realized that the same pigeon couple had landed for mating on his Haussmann-style balcony for the third year in a row with perfect timing. A well organised and timely society would come to life right under his eyes: the settling and the building of a place called home, the meeting of a partner and the mating, the birth of a new generation and their education... But actually who are the ones observing the others ?

Asanonymous as the people next-door in a big city, pigeons can go unnoticed and ignored, but they would nevertheless gather loudly in parks or on the pavement, buzz around, flying aimlessly over our heads, picking crumbles right out off our plates, and as such they ARE the city.

The city has its own way to gentrify people. We could really wonder whether pigeons themselves had been taken on by the same urban fever.

Petit Jean, already fascinated by Beatrix Potter's universe and Kenneth Grah...

-Nature et Design (Paris) 1 Oct until 15 Nov 2016
-Gallery Charron (Paris) 1 Sept until 30 Sept 2016
-Memento Mori - Luxury (Lille) 1 April until 3 June 2016
-Festival photo Linselles (Linselles) 18-19-20 March 2016
-Art Karlsruhe contemporary Art Fair (Germany) 18 Feb until 21 Feb 2016
-ART3F International Art Fair (Paris) 12-13-14 Feb 2016