Matthieu Venot

Contemporary Photographic Art: Dunkerque - Untitled XV

2016

Focusing his lens on architectural details and adopting fairly constructivist angles, Matthieu Venot succeeds in creating abstract geometric images. Born in Brest in Brittany, he started his photographic work with the desire to reveal his city from a different perspective. He only takes photographs when the weather is incredibly good. The photographer uses the immaculate sky like the background in a studio. Lines cross over and overlap, shapes stand out from this blue background and have us forgetting what we are observing: a roof, a wall, a balcony. “My photographs are full of colour, there’s a beautiful blue sky, so when you look at the picture you feel good. [...] It’s an optimistic vision of reality!”