"NYC - ROOFTOP - 2021" Print

Didier Fournet held his first camera from adolescence in Paris. After a long career as an Art Director for major advertising groups, the image has always been at the center of his life. ARTISTIC PRACTICE Didier Fournet’s practice is rooted in a critical exploration of the plastic potential of photographic images in the digital age. Positioned at the threshold between painting and photography, he replaces the pictorial gesture with work on the pixel, transforming the image into a vibratory field in which the perception of reality is continuously put under tension. Drawing from photographs taken in spaces of circulation and gathering—urban environments, leisure areas, and anthropized landscapes—he initiates a process of transformation that dismantles the immediate legibility of the photograph. The human figure remains present yet unstable, oscillating between appearance and dissolution. This shift in perception breaks away from any documentary approach, opening the image to a sensory and temporal experience. The notion of vibration lies at the conceptual core of his work. It functions as both a formal and perceptual principle, translating the flows, instabilities, and rhythms of the contemporary world. The viewer is invited into a state of active contemplation, in which the image recomposes itself through the very act of perception. Through this approach, Didier Fournet questions contemporary regimes of visibility and proposes a form of photography that does not present itself as evidence, but as experience—an image to be felt rather than consumed. TECHNIQUES Digital photography Work on pixel, blur, vibration, and image decomposition Fine Art prints Works in series MAIN SERIES Vibrations Abstract Vibrations EXHIBITIONS SOLO: Paris, Shanghai, Saint-Tropez, Biarritz, Guéthary ART FAIRS: New York, Miami, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Texas, Hamptons, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Hamburg, Paris… INSTITUTIONAL: Musée de Guéthary (solo)