Artist Statement
When I take photographs I try to expose the paradox of the image in its resemblance to the paradox of our existence now: a perpetual back and forth between the imaginary and the real, a vital yet doomed-in-advance striving to know where we are.
Mathieu Bernard-Reymond is a French-Swiss photographer born in Gap in 1976. He graduated from the Institute of Political Studies in Grenoble (FR) and from the photography at the Photography School of Vevey (CH). His work uses landscape, architecture and data as building blocks for a constantly renewed poetic language. For him, photography is a tool to create strange realities, to give birth to possible worlds. His digital approach allows him to stage data as well as the tangible world.
He received several prizes (Fondation HSBC for photography 2003, Rencontres d’Arles 2005, Paris-Photo 2006, Arcimboldo 2009, Fondation Irène Reymond 2016), and published two books to date: Vous-êtes ici (2003, Actes-Sud) and TV (2008, Hatje Cantz). His images be found in numerous public and private collections like Musée Nicéphore Niépce (FR), Musée de l’Elysée (CH) or Fonds National pour l’Art Contemporain (FR). He is a member of the European collective Piece of Cake
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